Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.
Phyllis CheslerIf it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.
Phyllis CheslerIf 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 CheslerSons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.
Phyllis Chesler