The Hurting Of Women Is . .

You Think Intercourse Is A Private Act; It's Not, It's A Social Act. Men Are Sexually Predatory In Life; And Women Are Sexually Manipulative. When Two Individuals Come Together And Leave Their Gender Outside The Bedroom Door, Then They Make Love.

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.

Women Have Been Taught That, For Us, The Earth Is Flat, And That If We Venture Out, We Will Fall Off The Edge. Some Of Us Have Ventured Out Nevertheless, And So Far We Have Not Fallen Off. It Is My Faith, My Feminist Faith, That We Will Not.

Men Are Distinguished From Women By Their Commitment To Do Violence Rather Than To Be Victimized By It.

In Her Heart She Is A Mourner For Those Who Have Not Survived. In Her Soul She Is A Warrior For Those Who Are Now As She Was Then. In Her Life She Is Both Celebrant And Proof Of Women's Capacity And Will To Survive, To Become, To Act, To Change Self And Society. And Each Year She Is Stronger And There Are More Of Her.