Men Use The Night To Erase Us.

We Must Refuse To Submit To Those Institutions Which Are By Definition Sexist - Marriage, The Nuclear Family, Religions Built On The Myth Of Feminine Evil.

There Is Nothing As Dangerous As An Unembodied Principle: No Matter What Blood Flows, The Principle Comes First. The First Amendment Absolutists Operate Precisely On Unembodied Principle.

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.

The Traditional Flowers Of Courtship Are The Traditional Flowers Of The Grave, Delivered To The Victim Before The Kill. The Cadaver Is Dressed Up And Made Up And Laid Down And Ritually Violated And Consecrated To An Eternity Of Being Used.

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.