Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

When I was out of work when I first moved to L. A. , one of the first things my husband and I did was buy season's passes to Disney and whenever I was bummed out about work, we would go to Space Mountain, and it was like a physical injection of anti-depressants.

Popular Topics
Thank You, Love You, Humbly, Afternoon, Music, Night, Ocean, Quite, Poor, Impossible, Dress, Oceans, Culture, Bible, Feeling, Hip Hop, Mother'S Day, Think, Difference, Bear, Pregnancy, Kind, Dance, Story, Important, Stories, I Like You, Memorable, Evidence, Glory, Secret, Teacher, Flower, Live, World, Confidence, Things In Life, Thinking, Things, Life Is Good, Beach, Poet, Peace And Love, Name, Justice, Children, Period, Peace Love, Organization, Book
Katha Pollitt

When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. . . . In fact, if you need laws. . . to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.

Fact, Ideas, Law, Laws, Needs, Things
Same Author Quotes

Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.

Know, Men, Powerful, Struggle, Won, Young

When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.

Children, Country, Forbidden, God, Missed, Workers

A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men. . . It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.

Answers, Feminist, Justice, Men, Question

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices?. . . a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

Currently, Misogyny, Practice, Religion, Tradition

Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters.

Authors, Buddhism, Character, Judaism, Sex
Similar Quotes