“For women not to fear rape because we can successfully defend ourselves against it is not anachronistic but revolutionary. For women to be considered as potential warriors (in every sense of the word, including its physical representation) is not anachronistic… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
