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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?

— Katha Pollitt Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (2014)

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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)

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