To Die On A Dying Earth -

When One Culture Has The Big Guns And The Other Has None, There Is A Certain Predictablity About The Outcome.

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.

I Once Asked A Young Dissertation Writer Whether Her Suddenly Grayed Hair Was Due To Ill Health Or Personal Tragedy; She Answered: “it Was The Footnotes”.

As My Mother Once Said: The Boys Throw Stones At The Frog In Jest. But The Frogs Die In Earnest.

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.