“I tend to think that if you’re a woman and you care about your freedom, you cannot help but harbor some anger and frustration. Whether it’s expressed in a thought to yourself or in an essay, to think like a woman, to produce and create like a woman, often involves anger. It’s a feature of a woman’s psyche as she comes into her own in a world that (still) does not want her to” (167).

“My investigation revealed to me something I didn’t expect: the female gaze is not a twentieth-century invention. It did not start with the suffragists, it did not begin with Mary Wollstonecraft, and it is definitely not unique to the West. It’s at least as old as philosophy itself. Women philosophers were not late to the scene; it seems they were there from the start, and they had much to say about their oppressive condition” (191).