Meredith Tax

Overview

Meredith Tax born Milwaukee, WI September 18, 1942. Feminist; antiwar activist; author and essayist. Published writings opposing the Israeli occupation of Gaza, nuclear weapons, and wars in Vietnam, the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Quotations

“Take war, for instance: the division of labor on most occasions has been that men decided how to fight and women took care of the orphans. A nuclear war won't have orphans; a new job description is needed.” (“Jewish Identity”, March 6, 1983)

“[T]he leadership of women is essential in a peace movement because pacifist men and conscientious objectors are always accused of cowardice and thus discredited.  Such leadership also asserts the intelligence, capability and humanity of women in a war climate that usually turns women from individual people into symbols of the motherland, booty for the conqueror nation, and pieces of meat.” (“Women, Ethnic War”, March 9, 1998)