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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

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Truthfulness, honor, is not something which springs ablaze of itself; it has to be created between people. This is true in political situations. The q...more

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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a ...more

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In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certain emotional standards in our relationships with ot...more

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The lie [of compulsory female heterosexuality] is many-layered. In Western tradition, one layer—the romantic—asserts that women are inevitably, even i...more

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Woman-identification is a source of energy, a potential springhead of female power, violently curtailed and wasted under the institution of heterosexu...more

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As a woman I have a country; as a woman I cannot divest myself of that country merely bu condemning its government or by saying three times "As a woma...more

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Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees

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I have chosen to use the terms lesbian existence and lesbian continuum because the word lesbianism has a clinical and limiting ring Lesbian existence ...more

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The effect of male-identification means ‘internalizing the values of the colonizer and actively participating in carrying out the colonization of one’...more

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All human life on the planet is born of woman. The one unifying, incontrovertible experience shared by all women and men is that months-long period we...more

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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside whic...more

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if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.

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In a world dominated by violent and passive-aggressive men, and by male institutions dispensing violence, it is extraordinary to note how often women ...more