Occupation: Poet Birth: October 14, 1949
Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not ….
We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regu….
Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting f….
If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's….
A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identi….
Every inch of progress is won in struggle..
Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, eith….
While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing..
Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools, which kids already hate, and associ….
Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times.
As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, o….
When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to pr….
Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you….
Misogyny runs deeper than religion..
Old, in America, is not a good thing to be..
Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to..
If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?.
For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking..
We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, ….
I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent d….
Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Sup….