Occupation: Writer Birth: September 14, 1934
Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who….
Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful ho….
To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand..
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 ….
[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 ….
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….
They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that..
Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, ….
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assig….
The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence..
The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism..
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….
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..
For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so s….
Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most..
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion..
To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return..
What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it..
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning..