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Top 30 Phyllis Chesler Quotes (2025 Update)

Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.”

1. “Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don’t!”

2. “Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don’t!”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.”

3. “Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they ‘marry’ and raise children.”

4. “Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they ‘marry’ and raise children.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as you see fit. It’s amazing that I feel the need to say this, but, given our times, I do.”

5. “Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as you see fit. It’s amazing that I feel the need to say this, but, given our times, I do.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “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.”

6. “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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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Women must begin to “save” themselves and their daughters before they “save” their husbands and their sons; before they “save” the whole world.”

7. “Women must begin to “save” themselves and their daughters before they “save” their husbands and their sons; before they “save” the whole world.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “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.”

8. “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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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “All men are not rapists – but almost all rapists are men.”

9. “All men are not rapists – but almost all rapists are men.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “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.”

10. “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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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world’s cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.”

11. “Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world’s cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism...”

13. “Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism...”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Men are taught that it is normal, even desirable, to compete and disagree with each other; when they do so, they do not personalize the argument nor do they think that a friendship or working relationship will be jeopardized by a strong difference of opinion.”

14. “Men are taught that it is normal, even desirable, to compete and disagree with each other; when they do so, they do not personalize the argument nor do they think that a friendship or working relationship will be jeopardized by a strong difference of opinion.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Many ‘natural’ events – like early death, disease, hardship – are neither desirable nor necessary.”

15. “Many ‘natural’ events – like early death, disease, hardship – are neither desirable nor necessary.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never really get to know their sons and daughters very well.”

16. “How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never really get to know their sons and daughters very well.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves.”

17. “Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.”

18. “The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Psychologically, enviers wish to be the one God loves most, the Chosen One, the one whose being radiates excellence. Many women wish to star in this role, and many do. The male universe has room for many more stars; the female universe is therefore much smaller, and the competition quite fierce for the limited number of starring roles.”

19. “Psychologically, enviers wish to be the one God loves most, the Chosen One, the one whose being radiates excellence. Many women wish to star in this role, and many do. The male universe has room for many more stars; the female universe is therefore much smaller, and the competition quite fierce for the limited number of starring roles.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right answer, one right God, one size fits all.”

20. “Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right answer, one right God, one size fits all.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Submission and humility will not protect you from the injustices of this war. Nothing can. But clarity, and solidarity in action, will allow you to fight back – and to keep sane, no matter what happens.”

21. “Submission and humility will not protect you from the injustices of this war. Nothing can. But clarity, and solidarity in action, will allow you to fight back – and to keep sane, no matter what happens.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “If we are not strong, our offers of help are minimally useful.”

22. “If we are not strong, our offers of help are minimally useful.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “You have a responsibility to see that your wounded selves do not get in the way of your warrior selves.”

23. “You have a responsibility to see that your wounded selves do not get in the way of your warrior selves.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “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.”

24. “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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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.”

25. “If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “There is a great sadness in knowing that men of genius are not able to transcend the limits of patriarchy. Had I but known that the works I so cherished had been done by human beings, not gods, and that great women, including feminists, had also once lived and worked, I suspect I might have been able to break free sooner from a whole host of fatally misguided notions. What we don’t know can hurt us.”

26. “There is a great sadness in knowing that men of genius are not able to transcend the limits of patriarchy. Had I but known that the works I so cherished had been done by human beings, not gods, and that great women, including feminists, had also once lived and worked, I suspect I might have been able to break free sooner from a whole host of fatally misguided notions. What we don’t know can hurt us.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Go gently into the day. Honor your idealism, resist cynicism. Keep your heart open to the world, try and make the world better. Don’t give up.”

27. “Go gently into the day. Honor your idealism, resist cynicism. Keep your heart open to the world, try and make the world better. Don’t give up.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “Even if a psychoanalytic understanding of one’s life is potentially liberating – and I think it may be – psychoanalytic therapy, by itself, cannot overcome trauma, or human nature. Nor can psychological healing take place in isolation.”

28. “Even if a psychoanalytic understanding of one’s life is potentially liberating – and I think it may be – psychoanalytic therapy, by itself, cannot overcome trauma, or human nature. Nor can psychological healing take place in isolation.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “If you need to be rescued by someone, become that someone yourself. Become Princess Charming. She is you.”

29. “If you need to be rescued by someone, become that someone yourself. Become Princess Charming. She is you.”

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Phyllis Chesler Quote: “A woman needs to be economically independent more than she needs a lover or a child.”

30. “A woman needs to be economically independent more than she needs a lover or a child.”

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