... a legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women...--with men relating to that the best they can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist ec...onomy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let it all hang out. Let it seem bitchy, catty, dykey, frustrated, crazy, nutty, frigid, ridiculous, bitter, embarrassing, man-hat...ing, libelous, pure, unfair, envious, intuitive, low- down, stupid, petty, liberating. We are the women that men have warned us about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally... of other people struggling for their freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of mysogyny to the myth of woman-hate, wo...man-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic Church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity--an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blind...ed so as not to see our own condition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressio...ns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »