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 Phyllis Chesler More Quotes by Phyllis Chesler More Quotes From Phyllis Chesler Should or can there be a single standard of behavior for both sexes? Is there such a thing as a biologically rooted female culture that should remain separate from male culture, partly because it is different than or superior to male culture? 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. Phyllis Chesler skills culture sex Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary. Phyllis Chesler hardship events disease If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength, seems to fare better when women control the means of production and reproduction. From this point of view, it is simply not in women's interest to support patriarchy or even a fabled "equality" with men. That women do so is more a sign of powerlessness than of any biologically based "superior" wisdom. Phyllis Chesler views men mean [On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they demand that intolerance be granted a dignified place at the table. Phyllis Chesler demand tolerance names Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism. Phyllis Chesler good-people islam people It is no accident that stock exchange floors - in addition to bedroom floors - bring out the noisy blood, the flushed cheek, and the passionate cries of men. Most men are making love when they make 'magical' amounts of money. Phyllis Chesler making-love men blood Afghans excel at fighting Afghans. This is what Afghans do, even when they are not being invaded by foreign powers. They fight each other, tribe against tribe, brother against brother, half-brother against half-brother, cousin against cousin, uncle against nephew, father against son. Phyllis Chesler cousin uncles brother children need truly evolved people - not other, larger children - as parents. Therefore, don't have a child until you've forged your own identity, can support yourself, and have already begun the work of creating or maintaining an extended family. Phyllis Chesler creating children people
