A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed, it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

-Faludi, Susan
  Backlash (UK edn), ch.3,'Backlashes Then and Now'.

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,'she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always those damned dishes.

-French, Marilyn
  The Women's Room, bk.1, ch.21.

The cardinal tenets of feminism divided my generation, effectively disempowering and disenfranchising its members. It does make me bitterlyangry that my generation, which prided itself so complacently on its soul, on its powers of intelligence and analysis, should have fallen so cloddishly for totalitarian simplicities which declared a war of eternal opposition between men and women.

-Lynd, Robert
  No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism.

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

-Pagels, Heinz R(udolf)
  'The Return of Carry Nation: Catharine Mackinnon and Andrea Dworkin', in Playboy, Oct. Collected inVamps andTramps (1994).

There is no'beginning'of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

-Rowbotham, Sheila
  Women, Resistance and Revolution, ch.1.