"You can fire a professor because he's a bad or unqualified teacher, but you shouldn't be able to fir..." — Norah Vincent

I have a lot more sympathy for men. I understand that they too are victims of the so-called patriarchy, that their roles have been as toxic as ours, and that they haven't yet been liberated from them.

My gender has roots in my brain, possibly biochemical ones, living very close to the roots of my self-image... Far, far closer than my race or class or religion or nationality, so close in fact as to be incomparable with those categories.

Among people who have suffered, politics is never a pose adopted for its facile rectitude.