When A Man Loses Superiority, He Loses

If You Ask Me What I Believe In Today, I Believe In Feminism. I Believe That All Human Beings Are Equal. I Believe That No One Has The Right To Authority Over Anyone Else. Feminism Has To Do With Everything In The World, A Vision Of How The World Can Be. I Have Great Doubts About Utopias, But I Just Keep On Thinking There Is A Better Way To Live Than The Way We Live Now.

Losing The Future Is The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me.

Marriage Accustomed One To The Good Things, So One Came To Take Them For Granted, But It Magnified The Bad Things, So They Came To Feel As Painful As A Grain In One's Eye. An Open Window, A Forgotten Quart Of Milk, A Tv Set Left Blaring, Socks On The Bathroom Floor Could Become Occasions For Incredible Rage.

Later, She Would Remember These Years, And Realize With Astonishment That She Had, By Fifteen, Decided On Most Of The Assumptions She Would Carry For The Rest Of Her Life: That People Were Essentially Not Evil, That Perfection Was Death, That Life Was Better Than Order And A Little Chaos Good For The Soul. Most Important, This Life Was All. Unfortunately, She Forgot These Things, And Had To Remember Them The Hard Way.

The Same Men Who Are Blind And Deaf To Feminism Are Acutely Sensitive To What Threatens Their Dominance And Privilege.