For 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.

for every marriage that is made in Heaven, there is a marriage made in Hell.

Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism.

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

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.

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

Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.