For A Mother The Project Of Raising

We Have A Double Standard, Which Is To Say, A Man Can Show How Much He Cares By Being Violent-see, He's Jealous, He Cares-a Woman Shows How Much She Cares By How Much She's Willing To Be Hurt; By How Much She Will Take; How Much She Will Endure; How Suicidal She's Prepared To Be.

A Man Can Be A Hero If He Is A Scientist, Or A Soldier, Or A Drug Addict, Or A Disc Jockey, Or A Crummy Mediocre Politician. A Man Can Be A Hero Because He Suffers And Despairs; Or Because He Thinks Logically And Analytically; Or Because He Is "sensitive"; Or Because He Is Cruel. Wealth Establishes A Man As A Hero, And So Does Poverty. Virtually Any Circumstance In A Man's Life Will Make Him A Hero To Some Group Of People And Has A Mythic Rendering In The Culture - In Literature, Art, Theater, Or The Daily Newspapers.

Any Man Will Follow Any Feminine Looking Thing Down Any Dark Alley; I've Always Wanted To See A Man Beaten To A Shit Bloody Pulp With A High-heeled Shoe Stuffed Up His Mouth, Sort Of The Pig With The Apple; It Would Be Good To Put Him On A Serving Plate But You'd Need Good Silver.

Standards Of Beauty Describe In Precise Terms The Relationship That An Individual Will Have To Her Own Body. They Prescribe Her Mobility, Spontaneity, Posture, Gait, The Uses To Which She Can Use Her Body. They Define Precisely The Dimension Of Her Physical Freedom And Psychological Development, Intellectual Possibility, And Creative Potential Is An Umbilical One.

Wild Intelligence Abhors Any Narrow World; And The World Of Women Must Stay Narrow, Or The Woman Is An Outlaw. No Woman Could Be Nietzsche Or Rimbaud Without Ending Up In A Whorehouse Or Lobotomized.