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Deborah Copaken Kogan

  • “... the number of reviews of books by men is greater than the number of reviews of books by women; the number of male reviewers is greater than the number of female reviewers. Men, in other words, are still the arbiters of taste, the cultural gatekeepers, and the recipients of what little attention still gets paid to books.”

    • Deborah Copaken Kogan,
    • "My So-Called Post-Feminist Lit Life," in The Nation ()

  • “This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.”

    • Deborah Copaken Kogan,
    • "My So-Called Post-Feminist Lit Life," in The Nation ()

  • “It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads with, 'She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. "The world's best mom," her son Matthew said.'”

    • Deborah Copaken Kogan,
    • "My So-Called Post-Feminist Lit Life," in The Nation ()

Deborah Copaken Kogan, U.S. writer

(1966)