We As Women Know That There Are

For A Mother The Project Of Raising A Boy Is The Most Fulfilling Project She Can Hope For. She Can Watch Him, As A Child, Play The Games She Was Not Allowed To Play; She Can Invest In Him Her Ideas, Aspirations, Ambitions, And Values - Or Whatever She Has Left Of Them; She Can Watch Her Son, Who Came From Her Flesh And Whose Life Was Sustained By Her Work And Devotion, Embody Her In The World. So While The Project Of Raising A Boy Is Fraught With Ambivalence And Leads Inevitably To Bitterness, It Is The Only Project That Allows A Woman To Be - To Be Through Her Son, To Live Through Her Son.

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.

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.

A Man Can Be A Hero If He Is A Scientist, Or A Soldier, Or A Drug Addict, Or A Disc Jockey, Or A Crummy Mediocre Politician. A Man Can Be A Hero Because He Suffers And Despairs; Or Because He Thinks Logically And Analytically; Or Because He Is "sensitive"; Or Because He Is Cruel. Wealth Establishes A Man As A Hero, And So Does Poverty. Virtually Any Circumstance In A Man's Life Will Make Him A Hero To Some Group Of People And Has A Mythic Rendering In The Culture - In Literature, Art, Theater, Or The Daily Newspapers.

Women Are An Enslaved Population - The Crop We Harvest Is Children, The Fields We Work Are Houses. Women Are Forced Into Committing Sexual Acts With Men That Violate Integrity Because The Universal Religion - Contempt For Women - Has As Its First Commandment That Women Exist Purely As Sexual Fodder For Men.