Occupation: Poet Birth: October 14, 1949
Misogyny runs deeper than religion..
While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing..
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….
We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women..
One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other..
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?.
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….
For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes..
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….
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..
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….
Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Sup….
Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not ….
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….
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….
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….
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….
Old, in America, is not a good thing to be..
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….
... 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….
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..