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Katha Pollitt

… on the whole ‘blasphemy’ has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

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Process

Thinking

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.

Feminist

Justice

Men

As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.

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Country

Teaching

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.

Misogyny

Practice

Tradition

Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn’t do it and didn’t really want to.

Past

Two

Years

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

Inches

Progress

Struggle

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

Feminism

Long

People

For me, religion is serious business – a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

Enemy

Humble

Pie

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question ‘Are women human?’ with a yes.

Answers

Feminism

Feminist

funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

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Garden

Hate

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Feminism

Feminist

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Hate

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Humble

Husband

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Inches

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Long

Lying

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Quotes by Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt

… on the whole ‘blasphemy’ has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

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.

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.

Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn’t do it and didn’t really want to.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

For me, religion is serious business – a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question ‘Are women human?’ with a yes.

funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

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