Phyllis Chesler and Arlene Raven, November 2005.

Arlene Raven, 1979. At the Women’s Building, we developed a theory of feminist education which was a transition from the way that women relate to one another through competition, isolation and silence, to a situation of support. Women have the supreme ability, through acculturation, not to criticize, and I strongly believe that we shape one another through our criticism.