No Woman Needs Intercourse; Few Women Escape

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.

Men Who Want To Support Women In Our Struggle For Freedom And Justice Should Understand That It Is Not Terrifically Important To Us That They Learn To Cry; It Is Important To Us That They Stop The Crimes Of Violence Against Us.

...in Every Realm Of Male Expression And Action, Violence Is Experienced And Articulated As Love And Freedom.

I Have To Ask You To Resist, Not To Comply, To Destroy The Power Men Have Over Women, To Refuse To Accept It, To Abhor It And To Do Whatever Is Necessary Despite Its Cost To You To Change It.

For A Mother The Project Of Raising A Boy Is The Most Fulfilling Project She Can Hope For. She Can Watch Him, As A Child, Play The Games She Was Not Allowed To Play; She Can Invest In Him Her Ideas, Aspirations, Ambitions, And Values - Or Whatever She Has Left Of Them; She Can Watch Her Son, Who Came From Her Flesh And Whose Life Was Sustained By Her Work And Devotion, Embody Her In The World. So While The Project Of Raising A Boy Is Fraught With Ambivalence And Leads Inevitably To Bitterness, It Is The Only Project That Allows A Woman To Be - To Be Through Her Son, To Live Through Her Son.