To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.

To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.