Every Three Minutes A Woman Is Being

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.

I Don’t Believe Rape Is Inevitable Or Natural. If I Did, I Would Have No Reason To Be Here. If I Did, My Political Practice Would Be Different Than It Is. Have You Ever Wondered Why We [women] Are Not Just In Armed Combat Against You? It’s Not Because There’s A Shortage Of Kitchen Knives In This Country. It Is Because We Believe In Your Humanity, Against All The Evidence.

Heterosexual Intercourse Is The Pure, Formalized Expression Of Contempt For Women's Bodies.

The Common Erotic Project Of Destroying Women Makes It Possible For Men To Unite Into A Brotherhood; This Project Is The Only Firm And Trustworthy Groundwork For Cooperation Among Males And All Male Bonding Is Based On It.

And On That Day, The Day Of Truce, That Day When Not One Woman Is Raped, We Will Begin The Real Practice Of Equality, Because We Can't Begin It Before That Day. Before That Day It Means Nothing, Because It Is Nothing; It Is Not Real; It Is Not True.