My Sister Said, You're Making It Hard

Homosexuality Was Invented By A Straight World Dealing With Its Own Bisexuality. But Finding This Difficult, And Preferring Not Toadmit It, It Invented A Pariah State, A Leper Colony For The Incorrigible Whose Very Existence, When Tolerated Openly, Was Admonition To All. We Queers Keep Everyone Straight As Whores Keep Matrons Virtuous.

The Worst Part About Prostitution Is That You're Obliged Not To Sell Sex Only, But Your Humanity. That's The Worst Part Of It: That What You're Selling Is Your Human Dignity. Not Really So Much In Bed, But In Accepting The Agreement - In Becoming A Bought Person.

The Great Mass Of Women Throughout History Have Been Confined To The Cultural Level Of Animal Life In Providing The Male With Sexual Outlet And Exercising The Animal Functions Of Reproduction And Care Of The Young.

The Enormous Social Change Involved In A Sexual Revolution Is Basically A Matter Of Altered Consciousness, The Exposure And Elimination Of Social And Psychological Realities Underlying Political And Cultural Structures. We Are Speaking, Then, Of A Cultural Revolution, Which, While It Must Necessarily Involve The Political And Economic Reorganization Traditionally Implied By The Term Revolution, Must Go Far Beyond This As Well.

Perhaps Patriarchy's Greatest Psychological Weapon Is Simply Its Universality And Longevity. ... Patriarchy Has A Still More Tenacious Or Powerful Hold Through Its Successful Habit Of Passing Itself Off As Nature.