Go away and don’t be silly. You might as well ask what is the female angle on an equilateral triangle.

When abandoned women follow their fleeing males with tear-stained faces, screaming you can’t do this to me, they reveal that all that they have offered in the name of generosity and altruism has been part...

Because, frankly, I have a tough time feeling that feminism has done a damn bit of good if I can’t be the way I am and have the world accommodate it on some level.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good and slavery is bad.BIAS: predeliction for a particular dogma. For example, the feminist bias is that women are...

…there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to ‘work like you don’t need the money, dance like nobody is watching, and love like you’ve never been hurt.’…After years of...

Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.

Now let’s make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie’s Organic Mac & Cheese?

It’s like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women’s bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

When we take your person into account, you who are a young maiden, to whom God gives the strength and power to be the champion who casts the rebels down and feeds France with the...

While mass-media images of biological “males” feminizing themselves have the subversive potential to highlight ways conventionally defined femininity is artificial (a point feminists make all the time), the images rarely function this way. Trans women...

Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood?

This is when the pill became widely known as The Pill, perhaps the only product in American history so powerful that it needed no name. Women went to their doctors and said they wanted it....

A woman’s greatest and most perduring failure will be her failure to love. It is certainly not without significance that so many women presently pressing for power on the political, sociological or ecclesial scene are...

Our society encourages women to place a very high value on maternity as an essential part of female identity, both a high moral calling and the deepest source of satisfaction on earth. It’s not easy...

Six men control almost all the media in the United States–book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappeared from the surface of our society....

buzz” words (like feminist, anti-oppression, anti-racist, social justice, etc.) in your introduction, then you are deemed unworthy and not knowledgeable enough to speak with authority on issues that you have lived experience with. The criteria...

It is an extravagant gesture,’ she said, turning to the torpedo, ‘which is just the sort of gesture I like.

Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.

I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play ‘dying in childbirth’,...

Do you really believe … that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who...

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today’s woman has become her “beauty.

At least a third of a woman’s life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition–so that women will only feel...

[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women’s issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race,...

real woman”; nor be won over by men’s enthusiasm for her destiny, a destiny they would not for the world want to share.

Sexism is not confined by border, race, class, sexuality or gender and, to my mind (and Margo Kingston’s in Chapter 6), it is inextricably bound up with a mindset of entitlement that also afflicts our...

The feminist movement as we have come to know it in recent decades is fundamentally a “con.”…As it is considered treasonous to criticise a sister feminist, no standards of accuracy or honesty are ever enforced....

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

I think are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,they are far superior and always have been. -William Golding

The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer. A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however...

Let’s take the figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. One feminist project could be to give the killjoy back her voice. Whilst hearing feminists as killjoys might be a form of dismissal, there is an...

Recently, a lot of Americans have swapped the awkward phrase ‘same-sex marriage’ for the term ‘marriage equality’. This phrase is ordinarily implied to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But...

I’m not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now – have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

How do we reconcile the imperfections of feminism with all the good it can do? In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed. For wathever...

…Whenever someone says to me, ‘Jerry Lewis says women aren’t funny,’ or ‘Christopher Hitchens says women aren’t funny,’ or ‘Rick Fenderman says women aren’t funny… Do you have anything to say to that?’Yes. We don’t...

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

It is not in becoming a whore that a woman becomes an outlaw in this man’s world; it is in the possession of herself, the ownership and effective control of her own body, her seperateness...

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

Mother, what is a Feminist?””A feminist, my daughter,Is any woman now who caresTo think about her own affairsAs men don’t think she oughter.

From a nonpatriarchal metaethical standpoint, however, Singer’s and Regan’s theoretical similarities are as significant as their differences. In particular, both Singer’s utilitarian theory and Regan’s rights approach are developed within a framework of patriarchal norms,...

It may upset my secret sisters that I say this, but between you and me, if you’re so fortunate as to have captured the perfect male, peeling off that chain-mail bikini and becoming a part-time...

Mütter, die nicht aus Überzeugung zuhause geblieben sind, üben oft den größten Druck auf die anderen Mütter aus. Sie sind der eigentliche Treiber der Rabenmütter-Diskussion, weil sie ihr Lebensmuster mit Zähnen und Klauen verteidigen. Das...

Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.

In seeking to understand this gendered difference in the perception of prisoners, it should be kept in mind that as the prison emerged and evolved as the major form of public punishment, women continued to...

Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is

[Ella Baker]’s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership… ‘She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge’. It was an attitude Baker shared with some...

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its...

After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it.