The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.

Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.