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The Fact That We Are All Trained To Be Mothers From Infancy On Means That We Are All Trained To Devote Our Lives To Men, Whether They Are Our Sons Or Not; That We Are All Trained To Force Other Women To Exemplify The Lack Of Qualities Which Characterizes The Cultural Construct Of Femininity.

Wild Intelligence Abhors Any Narrow World; And The World Of Women Must Stay Narrow, Or The Woman Is An Outlaw. No Woman Could Be Nietzsche Or Rimbaud Without Ending Up In A Whorehouse Or Lobotomized.

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.

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.

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.