Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge....
Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
Prostitution is not a profession, it is the result of sexism and gender oppression.
Julia supposed that there was also a difference in perspective: 'The practical level was another level down [in 1960s social movements] and not so interesting. I don't know much about organizing, but...
It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.
You are strong, self-reliant, entirely able to take care of yourself and of me... You are fearless, courageous; you saved my life, nursed me back to health, hunted for my food, provided for my comfort...
I resisted feminism in my late teens and my twenties because i worried that feminism wouldn't allow me to be the mess of a woman i knew myself to be. But then i began to learn more about feminism. i l...
There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.
The ultimate decision [of wearing hijab] must be that of the individual. Western opinions on the hijab or burkas are rather irrelevant. We don't get to decide for Muslim women what does or does not op...
It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a fact.
...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
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.
Life is not a competition between men and woman. It is a collaboration.
You will not be master of my body & my property
How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited her, silenced her, and even decades after it was supposed to have ended, still acted w...
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 ev...
This is the picture of a woman cast in the role of a learner, a pupil, even a rabbinic student. Quite obviously this is a prohibited role for women in those days and in that culture. Yet Jesus affirms...