Men Know Everything - All Of Them

To Be Rapeable, A Position That Is Social, Not Biological, Defines What A Woman Is.

We As Women Know That There Are No Disembodied Processes; That All History Originates In Human Flesh; That All Oppression Is Inflicted By The Body Of One Against The Body Of Another; That All Social Change Is Built On The Bone And Muscle, And Out Of The Flesh And Blood, Of Human Creators.

You Think Intercourse Is A Private Act; It's Not, It's A Social Act. Men Are Sexually Predatory In Life; And Women Are Sexually Manipulative. When Two Individuals Come Together And Leave Their Gender Outside The Bedroom Door, Then They Make Love.

Men Use The Night To Erase Us.

For A Mother The Project Of Raising A Boy Is The Most Fulfilling Project She Can Hope For. She Can Watch Him, As A Child, Play The Games She Was Not Allowed To Play; She Can Invest In Him Her Ideas, Aspirations, Ambitions, And Values - Or Whatever She Has Left Of Them; She Can Watch Her Son, Who Came From Her Flesh And Whose Life Was Sustained By Her Work And Devotion, Embody Her In The World. So While The Project Of Raising A Boy Is Fraught With Ambivalence And Leads Inevitably To Bitterness, It Is The Only Project That Allows A Woman To Be - To Be Through Her Son, To Live Through Her Son.