The Fact That We Are All Trained To Be Mothers From Infancy On Means That We Are All Trained To Devote Our Lives To Men, Whether They Are Our Sons Or Not; That We Are All Trained To Force Other Women To Exemplify The Lack Of Qualities Which Characterizes The Cultural Construct Of Femininity.

-Andrea Dworkin

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The Fact That We Are All Trained

Andrea Dworkin

The Fact That We Are All Trained To Be Mothers From Infancy On Means That We Are All Trained To Devote Our Lives To Men, Whether They Are Our Sons Or Not; That We Are All Trained To Force Other Women To Exemplify The Lack Of Qualities Which Characterizes The Cultural Construct Of Femininity.

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Mother

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Son

Writing Is Alchemy. Dross Becomes Gold. Experience Is Transformed. Pain Is Changed. Suffering May Become Song. The Ordinary Or Horrible Is Pushed By The Will Of The Writer Into Grace Or Redemption, A Prophetic Wail, A Screed For Justice, An Elegy Of Sadness Or Sorrow. ... There Is Always A Tension Between Experience And The Thing That Finally Carries It Forward, Bears Its Weight, Holds It In. Without That Tension, One Might As Well Write A Shopping List.

Song

Pain

Writing