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For me, religion is serious business—a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.
The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd—most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.
When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.
We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.
Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism (2004)
Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.
Virginity Or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time (2006)
Misogyny runs deeper than religion.
Actually, abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it’s not a good idea to bring them into the world.
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (2014)
In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (2014)
Your DNA is not you. It is more like the basic instructions for you. DNA is to a person as a blueprint is to a house.
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (2014)
What can that mean except that women’s sexuality is what really defines them, not their brains and gifts and individuality and character, and certainly not their wishes or their ambitions or their will?
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (2014)