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

Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.

Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

I also had nightmares. Somehow all the feelings I didn't feel when each thing had actually happened to me I did feel when I slept.

I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it.

The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other; in other words, women absorb male aggression so that men are safe from it.