"I replied- a little irritably, I am afraid- that I was not sure I wanted to 'identify myself,' as the phrase goes, with feminism."
"What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always a member of a class and not as an individual person."
"It is my experience that both men and women are fundamentally human, and that there is very little mystery about either [gender], except the exasperating mysteriousness of human beings in general."
"If you wish to preserve a free democracy, you must base it- not on classes and categories, for this will land you in the totalitarian state, where no one may act or think except as the member of a category. You must base it upon the individual Tom, Dick, and Harry, on the individual Jack and Jill- in fact, upon you and me."
-quoted in "Sing It, Dorothy," by Jay Nordlinger, National Review, April 6, 2015, pp. 27-28
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