Occupation: Writer Birth: September 14, 1934
The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs..
one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing..
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the b….
[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social ….
Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing f….
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 exerc….
Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful ho….
We are naïve 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 ex….
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it de….
Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most..
The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism..
We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture..
I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill….
Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it invent….
The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence..
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolu….
The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need ….
Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality..
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression..
To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return..
My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska..