The Genius Of Any Slave System Is

For A Mother The Project Of Raising A Boy Is The Most Fulfilling Project She Can Hope For.

By The Time We Are Women, Fear Is As Familiar To Us As Air. It Is Our Element. We Live In It, We Inhale It, We Exhale It, And Most Of The Time We Do Not Even Notice It.

One Needs Either Equality Or Political And Economic Superiority.

The Essence Of Oppression Is That One Is Defined From The Outside By Those Who Define Themselves As Superior By Criteria Of Their Own Choice.

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.