Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.