Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others. We are taught that this will to dominate is more biologically hardwired in...

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can...

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Perhaps the Queen’s prayers, and those of Bernard, had been efficacious, or perhaps Louise had been more attentive in bed, for during 1145–the exact date is not recorded–she bore a daughter, who was named Marie...

You know, all poetry may be a cry of generalised love, for this, or that, or the universe – which must be loved in its particularity, not its generality, but for its universal life in...

…I discovered I’m having a girl. And I hae spent a good portion of the last few weeks thinking about the kind f woman I’d like to see her become and the lessons I’d like...

In short, women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.

…then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

Love making can produce a child, sex can produce pregnancy

Whether or not I protect the weeds isn’t a matter of just recognizing the weed for what it is, but possessing the conviction to grab hold of the roots and yank like my life depends...

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

[She had] a gay adventuresome spirit that was never to die, though it led her into curious places and she often found, at the end, only a trackless waste from which she had to retrace...

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed … or find a still greater man to marry her. … The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he...

I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.

Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune...

Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them.

A respectful woman is a righteous woman.

How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters on the grounds of sexism = authenticity while simultaneously writing male characters with conveniently modern values?The habit of authors...

After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, ‘God, Madam’.

You must go further than I did,” Nedra said. “You know that.””Further?””With your life. You must become free.”She did not explain it; she could not. It was not a matter of living alone, though in...

I refuse to discover who I am, Wtf! I am’ having to much fun being free from knowing. Shall we write poetry?

She dated me for 3/4 yrs and liked me so much that she married me and disliked me so much that she divorced me after 4 yrs.

She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp it in her own understanding. Her active living...

The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous...

It was supposed to say “Great Artist” on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say “such a good teacher/daughter/friend” instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big...

Women won’t sleep with me for the same reason that I don’t pay for sex—I don’t have any money. And if I did have money, I wouldn’t pay for sex, because women would sleep with...

Liberating ourselves from the traditional strictures of marriage altogether, and/or transforming those strictures to include all of us — gay, feminist, career-focused, baby crazy, monogamous, non-monogamous, skeptical, romantic, and everyone in between — is the...

And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap… it drive me nuts sometimes… I want to kick them out immediately… I do now and then. But that...

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

Those who control life, and the bodies of women, control the money and hold the power. Women who are kept indoors, cannot make money and will not hold any power.

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly acquit the women. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon...

I’d love to have the kind of friend who would visit me before visiting a man. Otherwise I know where I’m ranked, which is below him.

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread… I only like what I’m allowed to like. I’m beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody,...

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn’t have the money and I didn’t have the woman.

Traveling together into what the poet Adrienne Rich has called ‘the cratered night of female memory,’ they undertook a shared process of self-discovery, working together to probe the possibility of woman’s creative power. Through their...

Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they’re communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they’re actually having, the conversation...

The funny part about Islam is; even if you rape a woman, it would be considered as her fault.

I find it strange how some men simply give up their soul to a woman, and act in obedience to their will. I find it stranger that those same women, are ignorant to the belief...

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I’m just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men...

I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know I am smart, I know I am kind and funny, and I know...

For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don’t look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

The game is a dominance game called I Must Impress This Woman. Failure makes the active player play harder. Wear a hunched back or a withered arm; you will then experience the invisibility of the...

Walk your own path and be yourself

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Every day of your life, you are faced with opportunities. Unfortunately, the choices that face you are not heroic choices. They are bamboo tree choices. They are small, but progressive choices that steer you in...

Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called ‘useful,’ when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose ‘antiques,’ as though their...

[While the scenes depicting shootouts, romances with beautiful women and close-call escapes from a relentless Interpol agent (Ethan Hawke) will keep audiences on the edge of their seats, Cage hopes the film will make people,...

[Robert] Jensen calls for an end to our current understanding of masculinity. He says, “We men can settle for being men, or we can strive to be human beings.” What’s funny is that that statement...