Phyllis Chesler Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

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  Men, Blood, Making Love

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

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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.

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  Mean, Understanding, Minorities

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

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• Afghans excel at fighting Afghans. This is what Afghans do, even when they are not being invaded by foreign powers. They fight each other, tribe against tribe, brother against brother, half-brother against half-brother, cousin against cousin, uncle against nephew, father against son.

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  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

  Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.115, St. Martin's Press

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• 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.

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  Country, Jerusalem, Buried

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

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