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Katha Pollitt is an American poet, critic, and writer known for her incisive political commentary and poetry, which often addresses themes of feminism, gender, politics, and social justice.

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“... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.”

People Thinking Humans Has Beens Whole Force Process Millions Rejects Human History Blasphemy Theocracy

Author:Katha Pollitt

“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.”

Want Years Has Beens Made Two Past Faces Hundred Gains Experts Insisting

Book:Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time

Source: Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time

“Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times”

Has Beens Novel Feminism Broadway Dead Man

Author:Katha Pollitt

“When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.”

About the Author

Born: October 14, 1949
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 35

Books & Sources

Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminismRelated source material

Pro: Reclaiming Abortion RightsRelated source material

Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and CultureRelated source material

Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our TimeRelated source material

Learning to Drive: And Other Life StoriesRelated source material

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