All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.
I have to ask you to resist, not comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it, and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.
Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.
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.
Men know everything – all of them – all the time – no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.
Women’s fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women’s bodies.
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will.
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.
The universal religion – contempt for women.
Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.
The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this – since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other; in other words, women absorb male aggression so that men are safe from it.
There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.