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The real reasons for genital mutilation can only be understood in the context of the "patriarchy": men must control women's bodies as the means of production, and thus repress the independent power of women's sexuality.
The Arab Spring did a great deal for women because the person who spread the word in the first place was a woman. Women participated in it; they were fully out there in the street.
The Humanist interview (2012)
Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.
Revolution From Within (1992)
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Humanist is a great term. …except that humanism sometimes is not seen as inclusive of spirituality … the belief that all living things share some value.
I think most social justice movements take the words that are used against them and make them good words.
The Humanist interview (2012)
Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
Revolution From Within (1992)
Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or im-plies enslaved women and master.
“Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.”
The Humanist interview (2012)
It’s about rejecting a god who looks like the ruling class.
The Humanist interview (2012)
I can’t think of anything more crucial than real Republicans taking back the GOP.
The Humanist interview (2012)
I’ve only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will.
The Humanist interview (2012)
Regarding the idea that the women’s movement is white and middle class — a fair share of the country is white and middle class.
The Humanist interview (2012)
If you're going to get groups of men to risk their humanity, health, and lives in wars of offense, the traditional way is not to pay them a lot, but to addict them to the "cult of masculinity." You have to convince them they're not "real men" unless they kill and conquer.
Basically, I feel different from most other women. I feel I don’t have to put on an act. If I’m not feminine enough for someone, I don’t care, because femininity is different in everyone’s mind.
Moving Beyond Words (1994)
I always feel I have to apologize to my friends who are Republicans because they’ve basically lost their party.
The Humanist interview (2012)
I have always employed humor, and I think it’s absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.
The Humanist interview (2012)
Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice
Revolution From Within (1992)
I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we lose faith in ourselves.
Revolution From Within (1992)
In Nevada, there was a time when you couldn’t get unemployment unless you tried sex work first.
The Humanist interview (2012)