Phyllis Chesler Quotes - Page 2

• Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one of the countries where they had been persecuted and where their ancestors once lived and are still buried.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Country, Jerusalem, Buried

  Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.145, Macmillan

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• Perhaps only some young women, perhaps only a minority of all women, will be able to effect such changes through consciousness alone, through the strength of understanding, which, if transformed into wisdom, always means the performance of necessary actions.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Mean, Understanding, Minorities

  "Women And Madness". Book by Phyllis Chesler, 2005.

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• It is no accident that stock exchange floors - in addition to bedroom floors - bring out the noisy blood, the flushed cheek, and the passionate cries of men. Most men are making love when they make 'magical' amounts of money.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Men, Blood, Making Love

  Phyllis Chesler, Emily Jane Goodman (1976). “Women, money & power”, William Morrow & Co

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

  Phyllis Chesler

  Events, Hardship, Disease

  Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”

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