children need truly evolved people - not other, larger children - as parents. Therefore, don't have a child until you've forged your own identity, ca…

- Phyllis Chesler

Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.

- Phyllis Chesler

Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.

- Phyllis Chesler

Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right answer, one right G…

- Phyllis Chesler

Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.

- Phyllis Chesler

Perhaps only some young women, perhaps only a minority of all women, will be able to effect such changes through consciousness alone, through the str…

- Phyllis Chesler

Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as you see fit. It's amazing that I feel the need …

- Phyllis Chesler

I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is a male-dominated society based on…

- Phyllis Chesler

Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dress…

- Phyllis Chesler