We Have A Double Standard, Which Is

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.

[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.

Feminism Is A Political Practice Of Fighting Male Supremacy On Behalf Of Women As A Class, Including All The Women You Don't Like, Including All The Women You Don't Want To Be Around, Including All The Women Who Use To Be Your Best Friends Whom You Don't Want Anything To Do With Any More. It Doesn't Matter Who The Individual Women Are.

Truth Is Harder To Bear Than Ignorance, And So Ignorance Is Valued More--also Because The Status Quo Depends On It; But Love Depends On Self-knowledge And Self-knowledge Depends On Being Able To Bear The Truth.

The Creative Mind Is Intelligence In Action In The World.