And yet wherever there exists the display of power there is politics, and in women's relations with men there is a continual transfer of power, there is, continually, politics. |
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist |
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. |
It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. |
Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly |
Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman |
Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing. |
Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds. |