The Universal Religion - Contempt For Women.

Every Woman Who Has Had Experience With Sexual Violence Of Any Kind Has Not Just Pain, And Not Just Hurt, But Has Knowledge. Knowledge Of Male Supremacy. Knowledge Of What It Is. Knowledge Of What It Feels Like. And Can Begin To Think Strategically About How To Stop It. We Are Living Under A Reign Of Terror. Now What I Want To Say Is That I Want Us To Stop Accepting That That's Normal. And The Only Way That We Can Stop Accepting That That's Normal Is If We Refuse To Have Amnesia Everyday Of Our Lives.

Men Love Death. In Everything They Make, They Hollow Out A Central Place For Death, Let Its Rancid Smell Contaminate Every Dimension Of Whatever Still Survives. Men Especially Love Murder. In Art They Celebrate It, And In Life They Commit It. They Embrace Murder As If Life Without It Would Be Devoid Of Passion, Meaning, And Action, As If Murder Were Solace, Stilling Their Sobs As They Mourn The Emptiness And Alienation Of Their Lives.

The Man Takes A Body That Is Not His, Claims It, Sows His So-called Seed, Reaps A Harvest - He Colonizes A Female Body, Robs It Of Its Natural Resources, Controls It.

There Is Nothing As Dangerous As An Unembodied Principle: No Matter What Blood Flows, The Principle Comes First. The First Amendment Absolutists Operate Precisely On Unembodied Principle.

I Love Books The Way I Love Nature. ... I Can Imagine Now That A Time Will Come, That It Is Almost Upon Us, When No One Will Love Books ... It Is No Accident, I Think, That Books And Nature (as We Know It) May Disappear Simultaneously From Human Experience. There Is No Mind-body Split.