The Annihilation Of A Woman's Personality, Individuality,

A Man Can Be A Hero If He Is A Scientist, Or A Soldier, Or A Drug Addict, Or A Disc Jockey, Or A Crummy Mediocre Politician. A Man Can Be A Hero Because He Suffers And Despairs; Or Because He Thinks Logically And Analytically; Or Because He Is "sensitive"; Or Because He Is Cruel. Wealth Establishes A Man As A Hero, And So Does Poverty. Virtually Any Circumstance In A Man's Life Will Make Him A Hero To Some Group Of People And Has A Mythic Rendering In The Culture - In Literature, Art, Theater, Or The Daily Newspapers.

[i]n The Male Sexual Lexicon, Which Is The Vocabulary Of Power, Erotica Is Simply High-class Pornography: Better Produced, Better Conceived, Better Executed, Better Packaged, Designed For A Better Class Of Consumer. As With The Call Girl And The Streetwalker, One Is Turned Out Better But Both Are Produced By The Same System Of Sexual Values And Both Perform The Same Sexual Service.

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.

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.

Every Woman Who Has Had Experience With Sexual Violence Of Any Kind Has Not Just Pain, And Not Just Hurt, But Has Knowledge. Knowledge Of Male Supremacy. Knowledge Of What It Is. Knowledge Of What It Feels Like. And Can Begin To Think Strategically About How To Stop It. We Are Living Under A Reign Of Terror. Now What I Want To Say Is That I Want Us To Stop Accepting That That's Normal. And The Only Way That We Can Stop Accepting That That's Normal Is If We Refuse To Have Amnesia Everyday Of Our Lives.