Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Women ... do not have to forsake the "wisdom of the heart" and become men. They need only transfer the primary force… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
For most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
“Encountering gender apartheid and waged slavery shook me to my roots more than half a century ago in Afghanistan. Oh, the women… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
“The chowdry, or burqa -- the Saudi, North African, and Central Asian version of the head, face, and body shroud -- is… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
“For women not to fear rape because we can successfully defend ourselves against it is not anachronistic but revolutionary. For women to… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
“Before I began research for this book I was not consciously aware that women were aggressive in indirect ways, that they gossiped… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
“It is impossible for a Westerner to imagine the deadening torpor of a protected life under house arrest. Eventually, one is grateful for the… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
“The idea that women's strong attachments to each other are what make them so vulnerable is horrifying. I count my close friendships with a… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
Should or can there be a single standard of behavior for both sexes? Is there such a thing as a biologically rooted female culture… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
Perhaps only some young women, perhaps only a minority of all women, will be able to effect such changes through consciousness alone, through the… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
“Encountering gender apartheid and waged slavery shook me to my roots more than half a century ago in Afghanistan. Oh, the women of Afghanistan,… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
children need truly evolved people - not other, larger children - as parents. Therefore, don't have a child until you've forged your own identity,… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
“The chowdry, or burqa -- the Saudi, North African, and Central Asian version of the head, face, and body shroud -- is a sensory… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
“That these girls avoid use of physical violence in resolving conflict, does not mean that these conflicts are resolved in meaningful and enduring ways.… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
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… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
Women ... do not have to forsake the "wisdom of the heart" and become men. They need only transfer the primary force of their… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share
![“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 the oppression of women. I am merely pointing out in what ways it is better for women. [¶] Perhaps someday a choice between forms of injustice will…” quote by Phyllis Chesler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/abe/phyllis-chesler-16740_amazon_i-am-not-saying-that-a-female-dominated_2610666.jpg)
