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- Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.
- Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do…
- The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men,…
- For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child,…
- The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and…
- Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to…
- Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
- Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
- So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear.…
- The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.
- Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
- Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do…
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