Feminism Quotes by Katha Pollitt

“I should say that it was only for me that Marxism seemed over. Surely, I would tell G. at least once a week, it…

— Katha Pollitt

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

— Katha Pollitt

funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months…

— Katha Pollitt

Misogyny runs deeper than religion.

— Katha Pollitt

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…

— Katha Pollitt

“Maybe I’m not cut out for monogamy,” G. had said to me early on. “Maybe I should just live in a room by myself…

— Katha Pollitt

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as…

— Katha Pollitt

When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In…

— Katha Pollitt

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

— Katha Pollitt

We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision and move on with their lives. We need…

— Katha Pollitt

“I’m a writer; I can float for hours on a word like “amethyst” or “broom” or the way so many words sound like what…

— Katha Pollitt

A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse…

— Katha Pollitt

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?

— Katha Pollitt

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 moral…

— Katha Pollitt

While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

— Katha Pollitt