women’s liberation

Virginia Woolf: If Shakespeare had had a sister…

Any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself

Virginia Woolf: Why did no woman write that extraordinary literature?

[Woman] dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger

Is Abortion a Women's Issue?

If one-third of American women have had an abortion, then one-third of American men have had one, too, and it’s time they spoke up.

I’ve been writing some short stories and essays, and one of them was published this week in The Raven’s Perch, a classy online literary journal. Find it here These journals amaze me. It must be a great deal of work to review hundreds of submissions, and keep up the website and a mass of relatedContinue reading “A Promise Is A Promise”

A Dagger to the Heart of Roe v. Wade

The social network supporting the right to abortion was frayed from the beginning. The first sign of danger was when doctors caved to pressure from religionists to ban abortion in individual hospitals, thus forcing reproductive services into separate clinics vulnerable to protesters and gunmen.

The abortion dictatorship

The twisting of the truth that is occurring now is easily as pernicious as shouting “Baby killer” at a soldier returning from Vietnam.

Where are the Men?

ne of the women in this discussion had just met a man after her nose started bleeding while she was in front of his house. He came out to help her and they struck up a conversation – he gave her a kiss on the cheek after the bleeding stopped.

Women have only just begun

I wish I could be here 50 years from today, when no generation will remember the Old Days, when we will have transformed our societies to deal more wisely with the energy that was unleashed when we set our women free.

Protective apps for college (and other) women

In yesterday’s post, I suggested that college women be provided with alarm systems which would easily and unobtrusively notify authorities or friends that she was in distress. My husband did some research and found that apps already exist which do this. I haven’t tried any of these, but they seem cleverly designed, and some are free of charge.