How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never really get to know their sons and daughters very well.
Phyllis CheslerFor most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than commanding an army or seizing control of the means of production and reproduction.
Phyllis CheslerSons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.
Phyllis CheslerMost mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.
Phyllis Chesler