For A Mother The Project

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 Make United Rebellion Against The Oppressor Inconceivable.

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.

I Love, Cherish, And Respect Women In My Mind, In My Heart, And In My Soul. This Love Of Women Is The Soil In Which My Life Is Rooted. It Is The Soil Of Our Common Life Together. My Life Grows Out Of This Soil. In Any Other Soil, I Would Die. In Whatever Ways I Am Strong, I Am Strong Because Of The Power And Passion Of This Nurturant Love.

I Have Been Asked, Politely And Not So Politely, Why I Am Myself. This Is An Accounting Any Woman Will Be Called On To Give If She Asserts Her Will.

Feminism Exists So That No Woman Ever Has To Face Her Abuser In Isolation, Alone.