Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
Be a girl with a mind, beauty and talents!
Where I grew up, women's liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.
"So you're the infamous Manal al-Sharif," he said, eyeing me from behind his desk. "Aren't you ashamed of what you did? Is driving a car something shameful?" I answered back.
It was the women of Afghanistan, my mother believed, who - once they'd been granted access to books and education - would be the salvation of the country
But it was a moral issue, too, and a number of Northern women felt they had an obligation to fight an institution that broke up families and subjected young women to sexual molestation. Abolition of...
India's rape law, enshrined in the colonial - era Indian Penal Code, placed the burden of the victim to establish her 'good character' and prove that a rape had occurred, which left her open to...
Until very recently, married women were addressed by their husbands' names, prefixed by Mrs. You stopped, for example, being Charlotte Brontë and became Mrs. Arthur Nicholls. Names erased a woman's...
Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. If our voices are essential aspects of our humanity, to be...
Violence never worked in the service of women.
Of course, some people's "decadence" is other people's "liberation;" the exhaustion with child - bearing a child - rearing that Douthat finds so troubling is the weariness of women who've borne the...
A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent on anyone, especially a man, because the minute you are dependent, you could be abused.
But then this is how it is for women everywhere. You experience one lapse in conscience, in how low you think you'll go, in what you'll accept, and pretty soon you're at the bottom
Women struggled to enter the all-male professional schools. Dr. Harriot Hunt, a woman physician who began to practice in 1835, was twice refused admission to Harvard Medical School. But she carried on...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
