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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own b...more

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

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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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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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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

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Feminism means finally that we renounce our obedience to the fathers and recognise that the world they have described is not the whole world. Masculin...more

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Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male e...more

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Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is for women more than a chapter...more