Feminism Quotes by Phyllis Chesler

Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.

— Phyllis Chesler

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

— Phyllis Chesler

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

“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

“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

All men are not rapists - but almost all rapists are men.

— Phyllis Chesler

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

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

“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

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

“The chowdry, or burqa -- the Saudi, North African, and Central Asian version of the head, face, and body shroud -- is a sensory…

— Phyllis Chesler

Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

— Phyllis Chesler

“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

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

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