For most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than commanding an army or seizing control of the means of production and reproduction. — 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
