Could Women's Liberation Ever Be A Revolutionary

Writing Is Alchemy. Dross Becomes Gold. Experience Is Transformed. Pain Is Changed. Suffering May Become Song. The Ordinary Or Horrible Is Pushed By The Will Of The Writer Into Grace Or Redemption, A Prophetic Wail, A Screed For Justice, An Elegy Of Sadness Or Sorrow. ... There Is Always A Tension Between Experience And The Thing That Finally Carries It Forward, Bears Its Weight, Holds It In. Without That Tension, One Might As Well Write A Shopping List.

The Cultural Institutions Which Embody And Enforce Those Interlocked Aberrations-for Instance, Law, Art, Religion, Nation-states, The Family, Tribe, Or Commune Based On Father-right-these Institutions Are Real And They Must Be Destroyed.

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

One Needs Either Equality Or Political And Economic Superiority.

Under Patriarchy, No Woman Is Safe To Live Her Life, Or To Love, Or To Mother Children. Under Patriarchy, Every Woman Is A Victim, Past, Present, And Future. Under Patriarchy, Every Woman's Daughter Is A Victim, Past, Present, And Future. Under Patriarchy, Every Woman's Son Is Her Potential Betrayer And Also The Inevitable Rapist Or Exploiter Of Another Woman.