Undernourished, Intelligence Becomes Like The Bloated Belly

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.

[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.

Standards Of Beauty Describe In Precise Terms The Relationship That An Individual Will Have To Her Own Body. They Prescribe Her Mobility, Spontaneity, Posture, Gait, The Uses To Which She Can Use Her Body. They Define Precisely The Dimension Of Her Physical Freedom And Psychological Development, Intellectual Possibility, And Creative Potential Is An Umbilical One.

We As Women Know That There Are No Disembodied Processes; That All History Originates In Human Flesh; That All Oppression Is Inflicted By The Body Of One Against The Body Of Another; That All Social Change Is Built On The Bone And Muscle, And Out Of The Flesh And Blood, Of Human Creators.

The Nature Of Women's Oppression Is Unique: Women Are Oppressed As Women, Regardless Of Class Or Race; Some Women Have Access To Significant Wealth, But That Wealth Does Not Signify Power; Women Are To Be Found Everywhere, But Own Or Control No Appreciable Territory; Women Live With Those Who Oppress Them, Sleep With Them, Have Their Children - We Are Tangled, Hopelessly It Seems, In The Gut Of The Machinery And Way Of Life Which Is Ruinous To Us.