Hell, I don’t want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.
Support Gay Liberation the whole way. But forget the practice. Nothing in it but the pain. They can say in public that I’m queer, but that doesn’t mean I have to be. Tell the truth––then outwit it in private.
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
Aren’t women prudes if they don’t and prostitutes if they do?
We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
I was supposed to be women’s lib, and now I’d exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.