Phyllis Chesler
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Born
in New York, The United States
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April 2013
An American Bride in Kabul
16 editions
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2013
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Women and Madness
34 editions
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1972
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Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
10 editions
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2002
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Letters to a Young Feminist
16 editions
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1997
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A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women
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The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis & What We Must Do About It
15 editions
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2003
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The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom
5 editions
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2005
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Mothers on Trial
15 editions
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1985
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Requiem for a Female Serial Killer
4 editions
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2020
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With Child: A Diary of Motherhood
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14 editions
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1981
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“Before I began research for this book I was not consciously aware that women were aggressive in indirect ways, that they gossiped and ostracized each other incessantly, and did not acknowledge their own envious and competitive feelings. I now understand that, in order to survive as a woman, among women, one must speak carefully, cautiously, neutrally, indirectly; one must pay careful attention to what more socially powerful women have to say before one speaks; one must learn how to flatter, manipulate, aree with, and appease them. And, if one is hurt or offended by another woman, one does not say so outright; one expresses it indirectly, by turning others against her.
Of course, I refuse to learn these "girlish" lessons.”
― Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
Of course, I refuse to learn these "girlish" lessons.”
― Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
“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.”
― Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
― Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
“The idea that women's strong attachments to each other are what make them so vulnerable is horrifying. I count my close friendships with a few girls that I know as one of the best things I have going for me right now. My love for them leaves me open to hurt, but ... all love does, or at least that's the cliche. Perhaps girls and women do come to love each other too quickly, or once they are trapped into appearing as though they love one another, they don't want to back out of it. That is probably true. But a fear of confrontation in relationships is the downside. The ability to love easily is a positive.”
― Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
― Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
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