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It Isn't Until You Begin To Fight In Your Own Cause That You (a) Become Really Committed To Winning, And (b) Become A Genuine Ally Of Other People Struggling For Their Freedom.

If I Had To Characterize One Quality As The Genius Of Feminist Thought, Culture, And Action, It Would Be The Connectivity.

Although Every Organized Religion Works Overtime To Contribute Its Own Brand Of Misogyny To The Myth Of Woman-hate, Woman-fear, And Woman-evil, The Roman Catholic Church Also Carries The Immense Power Of Very Directly Affecting Women's Lives Everywhere By Its Stand Against Birth Control And Abortion, And By Its Use Of Skillful And Wealthy Lobbies To Prevent Legislative Change. It Is An Obscenity-an All-male Hierarchy, Celibate Or Not, That Presumes To Rule On The Lives And Bodies Of Millions Of Women.

In The Long Run, Women's Liberation Will Of Course Free Men-but In The Short Run It's Going To Cost Men A Lot Of Privilege, Which No One Gives Up Willingly Or Easily.

Your Life Is The One Place You Have To Spend Yourself Fully--wild, Generous, Drastic--in An Unrationed Profligacy Of Self ... And In That Split Second When You Understand That You Finally Are About To Die-to Uncreate The World No Time To Do It Over No More Chances--that Instant When You Realize Your Conscious Existence Is Truly Flaring Nova, Won't You Want To Have Used Up All-all-the Splendor That You Are?