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…

— Phyllis Chesler

“It is impossible for a Westerner to imagine the deadening torpor of a protected life under house arrest. Eventually, one is grateful…

— 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…

— 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…

— Phyllis Chesler

Perhaps only some young women, perhaps only a minority of all women, will be able to effect such changes through consciousness alone,…

— Phyllis Chesler

“Encountering gender apartheid and waged slavery shook me to my roots more than half a century ago in Afghanistan. Oh, the women…

— Phyllis Chesler

children need truly evolved people - not other, larger children - as parents. Therefore, don't have a child until you've forged your…

— Phyllis Chesler

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Phyllis Chesler

Women ... do not have to forsake the "wisdom of the heart" and become men. They need only transfer the primary force…

— Phyllis Chesler

Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as…

— Phyllis Chesler

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

— Phyllis Chesler

Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right…

— Phyllis Chesler

“Before I began research for this book I was not consciously aware that women were aggressive in indirect ways, that they gossiped…

— Phyllis Chesler

exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

— Phyllis Chesler

If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength,…

— Phyllis Chesler

Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength…

— Phyllis Chesler

Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole…

— Phyllis Chesler

[On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they…

— Phyllis Chesler

How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for…

— Phyllis Chesler