“In a society constructed of self-perpetuating elites a grass roots movement exists to be walked on. Elites tumble down but the grass survives to spring again through the thickest pavement.”
― The Whole Woman
― The Whole Woman
“All women are supposed to vilify any peer who deviates from the accepted norm of femininity, and most do. What is remarkable is not that most do, but that some do not.”
― Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
― Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
“Women seek relief in tears where men seek relief in masturbation, which may be a distinction to be valued”
― The Whole Woman
― The Whole Woman
“pornography is the orchestrated destruction of women’s bodies and souls; rape, battery, incest, and prostitution animate it; dehumanization and sadism characterize it; it is war on women, serial assaults on dignity, identity, and human worth; it is tyranny. Each woman who has survived knows from the experience of her own life that pornography is captivity—the woman trapped in the picture used on the woman trapped wherever he’s got her.”
― Pornography: Men Possessing Women
― Pornography: Men Possessing Women
“The insistence that manmade women be accepted as women is the institutional expression of the mistaken conviction that women are defective males.”
― The Whole Woman
― The Whole Woman
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