Dissidents Quote by Wendy Kaminer

Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet.

— Wendy Kaminer

As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.

— Wendy Kaminer

I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life,…

— Wendy Kaminer

It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues…

— Wendy Kaminer

There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial.

— Wendy Kaminer

We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?

— Wendy Kaminer

I don't see a direct conflict between the rights of individuals and the rights of communities, because I don't perceive of communities as having…

— Wendy Kaminer

There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief,…

— Wendy Kaminer

I don't think of myself as having a particular role. I'm lucky enough to be able to make my living essentially by expressing my…

— Wendy Kaminer

There's a way in which all of these grazers at the spirituality buffet are performing a service, because you could argue that grazing leads…

— Wendy Kaminer

There is this fashionable progressive notion that everything is so completely political that the idea we could have some sort of neutral legal process…

— Wendy Kaminer

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

— Wendy Kaminer