Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
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 exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
We are naive 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 except through politics.
You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
Psychiatry causes so much death.
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
