The Creative Mind Is Intelligence In Action

Any Violation Of A Woman's Body Can Become Sex For Men; This Is The Essential Truth Of Pornography.

The Nature Of Women's Oppression Is Unique: Women Are Oppressed As Women, Regardless Of Class Or Race; Some Women Have Access To Significant Wealth, But That Wealth Does Not Signify Power; Women Are To Be Found Everywhere, But Own Or Control No Appreciable Territory; Women Live With Those Who Oppress Them, Sleep With Them, Have Their Children - We Are Tangled, Hopelessly It Seems, In The Gut Of The Machinery And Way Of Life Which Is Ruinous To Us.

Feminist Art Is Not Some Tiny Creek Running Off The Great River Of Real Art. It Is Not Some Crack In An Otherwise Flawless Stone. It Is, Quite Spectacularly I Think, Art Which Is Not Based On The Subjugation Of One Half Of The Species. It Is Art Which Will Take The Great Human Themes -love, Death, Heroism, Suffering, History Itself -and Render Them Fully Human. It May Also, Though Perhaps Our Imaginations Are So Mutilated Now That We Are Incapable Even Of The Ambition, Introduce A New Theme, One As Great And As Rich As Those Others -should We Call It Joy?

Under Patriarchy, Every Woman's Son Is Her Potential Betrayer And Also The Inevitable Rapist Or Exploiter Of Another Woman.

Pornography Reveals That Male Pleasure Is Inextricably Tied To Victimizing, Hurting, Exploiting; That Sexual Fun And Sexual Passion In The Privacy Of The Male Imagination Are Inseparable From The Brutality Of Male History. The Private World Of Sexual Dominance That Men Demand As Their Right And Their Freedom Is The Mirror Image Of The Public World Of Sadism And Atrocity That Men Consistently And Self-righteously Deplore. It Is In The Male Experience Of Pleasure That One Finds The Meaning Of Male History.