If women take their bodies seriously—and ideally we should—then its expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength, seems to fare better when control the means of production and reproduction. From this point of view, it is simply not in women's interest to support patriarchy or even a fabled "equality" with men. That women do so is more a sign of powerlessness than of any biologically based "superior" wisdom.
Phyllis Chesler