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I Also Had Nightmares. Somehow All The Feelings I Didn't Feel When Each Thing Had Actually Happened To Me I Did Feel When I Slept.

Monroe, The Consummate Sexual Doll, Is Empowered To Act But Afraid To Act, Perhaps Because No Amount Of Acting, However Inspired,can Convince The Actor Herself That Her Ideal Female Life Is Not A Dreadful Form Of Dying.

Every Woman Who Has Had Experience With Sexual Violence Of Any Kind Has Not Just Pain, And Not Just Hurt, But Has Knowledge. Knowledge Of Male Supremacy. Knowledge Of What It Is. Knowledge Of What It Feels Like. And Can Begin To Think Strategically About How To Stop It. We Are Living Under A Reign Of Terror. Now What I Want To Say Is That I Want Us To Stop Accepting That That's Normal. And The Only Way That We Can Stop Accepting That That's Normal Is If We Refuse To Have Amnesia Everyday Of Our Lives.

Men Who Want To Support Women In Our Struggle For Freedom And Justice Should Understand That It Is Not Terrifically Important To Us That They Learn To Cry; It Is Important To Us That They Stop The Crimes Of Violence Against Us.

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.