Minority Art, Vernacular Art, Is Marginal Art.

Long Before I Became A Feminist In Any Explicit Way, I Had Turned From Writing Love Stories About Women In Which Women Were Losers, And Adventure Stories About Men In Which The Men Were Winners, To Writing Adventure Stories About A Woman In Which The Woman Won. It Was One Of The Hardest Things I Ever Did In My Life.

Privileged Groups, Like Everyone Else, Want To Think Well Of Themselves And To Believe That They Are Acting Generously And Justly.

I Think We Ought To Decide That Man-hating Is Not Only Respectable But Honorable. To Be A Misandrist A Woman Needs Considerable Ingenuity, Originality, And Resilience. A Misogynist Requires No Such Resources.

Ignorance Is Not Bad Faith. But Persistence In Ignorance Is.

When The Memory Of One's Predecessors Is Buried, The Assumption Persists That There Were None And Each Generation Of Women Believes Itself To Be Faced With The Burden Of Doing Everything For The First Time. And If No One Ever Did It Beforewhy Do We Think We Can Succeed Now?