Occupation: Writer Birth: September 26, 1946 Death: April 9, 2005
As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy the polar realit….
We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she ….
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman..
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating..
I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than i….
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite specta….
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance..
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies..
We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine….
The universal religion - contempt for women..
We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact, we live ina homosexual society….
To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is..
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 f….
I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no ….
In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is….
Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?.
...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom..
Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a shit bloody pulp with a high-heeled s….
Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with ….
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 t….
Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the t….