weak men are afraid of a woman's strength.
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
Miss Dearheart gave him a very brief look, and shook her head. There was movement under the table, a small fleshy kind of noise and the drunk suddenly bent forward, colour draining from his face. Prob...
Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive
Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our vo...
The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is good people immediately perceive race discrimination as evil and intolerable. But when I talked abou...
I never wanted to feel ashamed for striving, for desiring, for ambition. And I never wanted to judge another woman, or anyone, for that matter, for their own aspirations, even if they differed from my...
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Beware of fascist feminism.
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent
The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.
Feminism is a way of thinking and being, not a way of dressing. You know a feminist by her gaze, not her neckline.
She was still not at ease with the idea that she was now important enough to have people as accessories. Nor was she comfortable with the idea of these people as gatekeepers with access to the details...
...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 t...
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
For frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above groundfor burned mermaids and sick vampire girlsfor wild wolfish women with sharp teeth and leaves in their hair
Significantly, romantic friendships can coexist with the fact of partners' marrying because their reason for being is not to replace marriage but to open the possibility of sustained, committed true l...
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made co...