Women Have Been Taught That, For Us,

Undernourished, Intelligence Becomes Like The Bloated Belly Of A Starving Child: Swollen, Filled With Nothing The Body Can Use.

Men Are Distinguished From Women By Their Commitment To Do Violence Rather Than To Be Victimized By It.

Being Female In This World Means Having Been Robbed Of The Potential For Human Choice By Men Who Love To Hate Us. One Does Does Not Make Choices In Freedom. Instead, One Conforms In Body Type And Behavior And Values To Become An Object Of Male Sexual Desire, Which Requires An Abandonment Of A Wide-ranging Capacity For Choice... Men Too Make Choices. When Will They Choose Not To Despise Us?

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.

The Man Takes A Body That Is Not His, Claims It, Sows His So-called Seed, Reaps A Harvest - He Colonizes A Female Body, Robs It Of Its Natural Resources, Controls It.