Katha Pollitt

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny…

— Katha Pollitt

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

— Katha Pollitt

If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of…

— Katha Pollitt

Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

— Katha Pollitt

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.

— Katha Pollitt

“You think what people say is what matters, an older friend told me long ago. You think it's all about words. Well,…

— Katha Pollitt

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness…

— Katha Pollitt

I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no…

— Katha Pollitt

Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do…

— Katha Pollitt

Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage…

— Katha Pollitt

“What would the world be like if women stopped being women—shut the tea-and-sympathy shop, closed down the love store, gave up the…

— Katha Pollitt

My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag…

— Katha Pollitt

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which…

— Katha Pollitt

As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout…

— Katha Pollitt