She felt her wrists, her arms, rubbed her hand over her breasts, her belly, her thighs. She was warm and smooth and her heart beat calmly, fine pulsing energy was being driven through her, she could w...
Some people use bullfights, some the Mass, some art in order to ritualize or transform death into life or at least meaning. But my terror is that life itself is a ritual transforming everything into d...
That's sheer luck too: luck of the draw of birth: century, continent, nation, section, sex, color, socioeconomic sector.
But communes are a good idea. People criticize communes because they don't last, but why in hell, will you tell me, should they last? Why does an order have to become a permanent order? Maybe we shoul...
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't...
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
Nineteenth-century feminism was defeated by men's adamant refusal to take responsibility for maintaining themselves and their children;
In the beginning was the Mother, the Word began a new era, one we have come to call Patriarchy.
When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than...
But we all die, and all death is violent, the overthrowing of the state of life, so why did that year [1968]seem so terrible? Are King or Kennedy or some peasant folk in a village more important than...
What is a man, anyway? Everything I see around me in popular culture tells me a man is he who screws and kills. But everything I see around me in life tells me a man is he who makes money.
Después, mucho después, recordaría aquellos años y comprendería asombrada que a los quince ya se había decidido por la mayoría de los postulados que sostendría durante el resto de su vida: que las per...
Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle. Anyway, both of these impulses can destroy orde...
The breakdown of the neighborhoods also meant the end of what was essentially an extended family....With the breakdown of the extended family, too much pressure was put on the single family. Mom had n...
In Harlem the government pushes heroin to keep the blacks down and doctors by the thousands give barbiturates and tranquilizers to all the housewives: keep the natives quiet. when the drugs don't work...
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