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Phyllis Chesler Quotes: Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.
         

Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.


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



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Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.



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Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right answer, one right God, one size fits all.



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



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Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!



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All men are not rapists - but almost all rapists are men.


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Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.



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



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If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.



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





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How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.



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