raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion