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We Have A Double Standard, Which Is To Say, A Man Can Show How Much He Cares By Being Violent-see, He's Jealous, He Cares-a Woman Shows How Much She Cares By How Much She's Willing To Be Hurt; By How Much She Will Take; How Much She Will Endure; How Suicidal She's Prepared To Be.

Women Have Been Taught That, For Us, The Earth Is Flat, And That If We Venture Out, We Will Fall Off The Edge. Some Of Us Have Ventured Out Nevertheless, And So Far We Have Not Fallen Off. It Is My Faith, My Feminist Faith, That We Will Not.

No Woman Needs Intercourse; Few Women Escape It.

Romantic Love, In Pornography As In Life, Is The Mythic Celebration Of Female Negation. For A Woman, Love Is Defined As Her Willingness To Submit To Her Own Annihilation.... The Proof Of Love Is That She Is Willing To Be Destroyed By The One Whom She Loves, For His Sake. For The Woman, Love Is Always Self-sacrifice, The Sacrifice Of Identity, Will, And Bodily Integrity, In Order To Fulfill And Redeem The Masculinity Of Her Lover.

We Are Born Into A World In Which Sexual Possibilities Are Narrowly Circumscribed. . . . We Are Programmed By The Culture As Surely As Rats Are Programmed To Make The Arduous Way Through The Scientist's Maze, And That Programming Operates On Every Level Of Choice And Action.