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

Katha Pollitt (2007). “Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture”, p.29, Modern Library

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.

Katha Pollitt (2006). “Virginity Or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time”, Random House Incorporated

Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

"Breaking feminism's waves" by Katha Pollitt, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2009.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism”, Vintage