Occupation: Poet Birth: October 14, 1949
My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Defini….
We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women..
In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking..
When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies..
One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other..
... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject th….
For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes..
For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom..
When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed mor….
funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in m….
Every inch of progress is won in struggle..
Old, in America, is not a good thing to be..
Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not ….
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….
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 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..
Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times.
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….
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….
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….
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..