By The Time We Are Women, Fear

The Argument Between Wives And Whores Is An Old One; Each One Thinking That Whatever She Is, At Least She Is Not The Other.

Men Are Rewarded For Learning The Practice Of Violence In Virtually Any Sphere Of Activity By Money, Admiration, Recognition, Respect, And The Genuflection Of Others Honoring Their Sacred And Proven Masculinity. In Male Culture, Police Are Heroic And So Are Outlaws; Males Who Enforce Standards Are Heroic And So Are Those Who Violate Them.

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

Being Female In This World Means Having Been Robbed Of The Potential For Human Choice By Men Who Love To Hate Us. One Does Does Not Make Choices In Freedom. Instead, One Conforms In Body Type And Behavior And Values To Become An Object Of Male Sexual Desire, Which Requires An Abandonment Of A Wide-ranging Capacity For Choice... Men Too Make Choices. When Will They Choose Not To Despise Us?

The Nature Of Women's Oppression Is Unique: Women Are Oppressed As Women, Regardless Of Class Or Race; Some Women Have Access To Significant Wealth, But That Wealth Does Not Signify Power; Women Are To Be Found Everywhere, But Own Or Control No Appreciable Territory; Women Live With Those Who Oppress Them, Sleep With Them, Have Their Children - We Are Tangled, Hopelessly It Seems, In The Gut Of The Machinery And Way Of Life Which Is Ruinous To Us.