The Argument Between Wives And Whores Is

Women Have Been Taught That, For Us, The Earth Is Flat, And That If We Venture Out, We Will Fall Off The Edge. Some Of Us Have Ventured Out Nevertheless, And So Far We Have Not Fallen Off. It Is My Faith, My Feminist Faith, That We Will Not.

Does The Sun Ask Itself, "am I Good? Am I Worthwhile? Is There Enough Of Me?" No, It Burns And It Shines. Does The Sun Ask Itself, "what Does The Moon Think Of Me? How Does Mars Feel About Me Today?" No It Burns, It Shines. Does The Sun Ask Itself, "am I As Big As Other Suns In Other Galaxies?" No, It Burns, It Shines.

Standards Of Beauty Describe In Precise Terms The Relationship That An Individual Will Have To Her Own Body. They Prescribe Her Mobility, Spontaneity, Posture, Gait, The Uses To Which She Can Use Her Body. They Define Precisely The Dimension Of Her Physical Freedom And Psychological Development, Intellectual Possibility, And Creative Potential Is An Umbilical One.

[i]n The Male Sexual Lexicon, Which Is The Vocabulary Of Power, Erotica Is Simply High-class Pornography: Better Produced, Better Conceived, Better Executed, Better Packaged, Designed For A Better Class Of Consumer. As With The Call Girl And The Streetwalker, One Is Turned Out Better But Both Are Produced By The Same System Of Sexual Values And Both Perform The Same Sexual Service.

Feminist Art May... Though Perhaps Our Imaginations Are So Mutilated Now That We Are Incapable Even Of The Ambition, Introduce A New Theme... Should We Call It 'joy'?