We Are Women. We Are A Subject

Mystical State, Madness, How It Frightens People. How Utterly Crazy They Become, Remote, Rude, Peculiar, Cruel, Taunting, Farouche As Wild Beasts Who Have Smelled Danger, The Unthinkable.

Homosexuality Was Invented By A Straight World Dealing With Its Own Bisexuality. But Finding This Difficult, And Preferring Not Toadmit It, It Invented A Pariah State, A Leper Colony For The Incorrigible Whose Very Existence, When Tolerated Openly, Was Admonition To All. We Queers Keep Everyone Straight As Whores Keep Matrons Virtuous.

The Image Of The Woman As We Know It Is An Image Created By Men And Fashioned To Suit Their Needs.

Perhaps Patriarchy's Greatest Psychological Weapon Is Simply Its Universality And Longevity. ... Patriarchy Has A Still More Tenacious Or Powerful Hold Through Its Successful Habit Of Passing Itself Off As Nature.

For It Is Precisely Because Certain Groups Have No Representation In A Number Of Recognized Political Structures That Their Position Tends To Be So Stable, Their Oppression So Continuous.