Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence, regardless of where she was raised or what religion she does or doesn’t practice. She may grow up to love women...

I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the suppression of feminism.Under my definition, helping oppressed women in other countries falls outside...

Well, of course, you can’t expect people to rearrange their minds in five minutes. And I’m not good at this. And I don’t want to do it. It’s a bore, anyway. Unfortunately I know what...

Men won’t easily give up a system in which half the world’s population works for next to nothing…[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight...

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.

We still live in a world where many men are pissed off that women choose to be powerful equals rather than submissive objects of sexual release. I am a human. A human being. Who cares...

Do you think it is fair that guy will make more money doing the same job as you? Does it piss you off and scare you when you find out about your friends getting raped?...

Centuries of social conditioning has created a generational fear among women of being perceived as masculine.This is where all the shaming and labels come into play, which perpetuate the oppression of girls and women. As...

In the grammar of the phallus — the I, I, I — [woman] can’t utter female experience.

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a...

She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex–or, if “beautiful,” her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits in her something she needs to live, and gives her the ultimate anaphrodisiac:...

Girls can fight with swords, too. Sometimes, even better than men can. They just have to want it badly enough that they’re willing to work harder at it.

The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes...

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as a writer. Henry James or Thomas Mann could easily write it, but not I. ‘I’m...

If women want rights more than they got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped...

I find it easier to claim that I am friends with a monkey rather than with a man.

No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the...

…”Fun?” you ask. “Weren’t feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn’t get a man?” Well, in fact the problem was that all too many of them HAD gotten a...

The lingerie department is the only one that she can reach in her wheelchair. Nevertheless, she is fired the next day because of complaints that a woman who is so obviously not sexually attractive selling...

So here is what I see when we reclaim the church ladies: a woman loved and free is beautiful. She is laughing with her sisters, and together they are telling their stories, revealing their scars...

MacKinnon captures this is in her succinct lesson on the grammar of pornography and male dominance: ‘Man fucks woman; subject verb object.

A survey of 348 male managers at twenty Fortune 500 companies found that fathers from dual-career families put in an average of two fewer hours per week – or about 4 percent less – than...

It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can’t.

Marriage, in short, is a bargain, like buying a house or entering a profession. One chooses it knowing that, by that very decision, one is abnegating other possibilities. In choosing companionship over passion, women like...

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course...

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.

Even beyond the Middle East, the role of the independent women remains as warped as a Lewis Caroll novel. We may control $12 trillion of the world’s $184 trillion in annual consumer spending (I read...

if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.

Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war.

I only had three teachers, really, that were interesting, and all three of them were women.

In reaction against the age-old slogan, “woman is the weaker vessel,” or the still more offensive, “woman is a divine creature,” we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that “a woman is...

Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It...

How to RAPE your mom:1. Intoxicate with chemicals.2.Slash,cut & rip off all green clothes and valuables.3.Drill, baby, drill.4.Say: “She had it coming.”5.Socialize all costs of devastation.6.mRest between rapes to whine about “Takers, not Makers”7. Gloat.

But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the...

And sometimes drunk women aren’t raped; they just make stupid choices–and to say we deserve special treatment when we’re drunk because we’re women, to say we need to be looked after, I find offensive.

The sad truth of the matter is that when it comes to appearance, we start off with men as the standard, the norm.

chick lit” and for the most part the term doesn’t bother me. I think it simply signals to readers that the book is about women, written for women (although many men enjoy my books), about...

But we [women] are only at the beginning [of revamping feminism]. And our strictures on each other prove this. Our enforcement of thinness, of non-sexuality, of ‘good’ feminism versus ‘bad’ feminism, are proofs of our...

How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself…?

Y añade: ‘Las peliculas X, en general, están producidas y dirigidas por hombres y destinadas a un público masculino, por lo cual se centran en unos códigos muy particulares: cosificación y humillación de las mujeres,...

When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby...

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found...

I understand that you come from a generation of women who had to work hard to be heard, but for you to impugn my feminism and act as though I’m a scourge upon women everywhere,...

If a woman enjoyed sex, or expressed her sexuality outwardly she was automatically a slut with no respect for herself. Sex was a favor you allowed your husband so angels wouldn’t curse you until morning.

I’m getting stale. I always do this time of year. I keep my nose to the grindestone and put in long hours and rustle up good meals and do all the chores and run errands...

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

Men have worked as essentially shop keepers and store clerks for a lot longer than they have worked on assembly lines. There have been waiters forever. Lawyers are the world’s second oldest profession. Teaching was...