“Hill described a man who was crude, inept, driven. He asked for a date but couldn’t take no for an answer. He hammered away, wanting to know why he was being turned down. He used his authority to feel big at the expense of making a woman feel small”
Originally published November 19, 1991
“Women's liberation is being called by many names today. It is called 'the movement,' it is called 'the cause,' it is called 'the revolution.' The liberation of women is, in my view, at one and the same time, all of the things it is called, and none of those things.”
Originally published December 10, 1970
“They were amazed, those young women who had been meeting in small groups or taking part in small actions for months. No one of them would have dared to say before that evening that the women's liberation movement had 20,000 members in New York City alone.”
Originally published September 3, 1970
“Suppose I had to confront every day, every hour, the question of which side I'm on?
Such questions excite and disturb me.”
Originally published June 1, 1982
“Nearly four decades after it was first published in France... ‘The Second Sex’ remains the most cogent and thorough book of feminist theory yet written.”
Originally published May 27, 1986
Congresswoman ‘Battling’ Bella Abzug rebuts the assertions of an earlier Voice article on the failure to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in New York State
Originally published December 22, 1975
‘The new consensus is that the family is our last refuge; the idea that there could be desirable alternatives to the family is no longer taken seriously’
Originally published September 17, 1979
In 1991, the Voice reviewed the book “Backlash.” Twenty-seven years later, much remains the same.
October 15, 2018
“I think Emma González is the face of the new activism, and it’s such an amazing face”
March 8, 2018