Feminism Exists So That No

We Are Born Into A World In Which Sexual Possibilities Are Narrowly Circumscribed. . . . We Are Programmed By The Culture As Surely As Rats Are Programmed To Make The Arduous Way Through The Scientist's Maze, And That Programming Operates On Every Level Of Choice And Action.

Truth Is Harder To Bear Than Ignorance, And So Ignorance Is Valued More--also Because The Status Quo Depends On It; But Love Depends On Self-knowledge And Self-knowledge Depends On Being Able To Bear The Truth.

One Of The Reasons That Women Are Kept In A State Of Economic Degradation- Because That's What It Is For Most Women- Is Because That Is The Best Way To Keep Women Sexually Available.

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 Extend In Time, To Be Not Only Use Of But Possession Of, Or Ownership.

The Traditional Flowers Of Courtship Are The Traditional Flowers Of The Grave, Delivered To The Victim Before The Kill. The Cadaver Is Dressed Up And Made Up And Laid Down And Ritually Violated And Consecrated To An Eternity Of Being Used.