Being Female In This World Means Having

Women's Fashion Is A Euphemism For Fashion Created By Men For Women.

Men Love Death. In Everything They Make, They Hollow Out A Central Place For Death, Let Its Rancid Smell Contaminate Every Dimension Of Whatever Still Survives. Men Especially Love Murder. In Art They Celebrate It, And In Life They Commit It. They Embrace Murder As If Life Without It Would Be Devoid Of Passion, Meaning, And Action, As If Murder Were Solace, Stilling Their Sobs As They Mourn The Emptiness And Alienation Of Their Lives.

Standards Of Beauty Describe In Precise Terms The Relationship That An Individual Will Have To Her Own Body. They Prescribe Her Mobility, Spontaneity, Posture, Gait, The Uses To Which She Can Use Her Body. They Define Precisely The Dimension Of Her Physical Freedom And Psychological Development, Intellectual Possibility, And Creative Potential Is An Umbilical One.

Genocide Begins, However Improbably, In The Conviction That Classes Of Biological Distinction Indisputably Sanction Social And Political Discrimination.

Men Characterize Pornography As Something Mental Because Their Minds, Their Thoughts, Their Dreams, Their Fantasies, Are More Real To Them Than Women's Bodies Or Lives; In Fact, Men Have Used Their Social Power To Characterize A $10-billion-a-year Trade In Women As Fantasy.