The Hurting Of Women Is . .

A Commitment To Sexual Equality With Males Is A Commitment To Becoming The Rich Instead Of The Poor, The Rapist Instead Of The Raped, The Murderer Instead Of The Murdered.

Writing Is Alchemy. Dross Becomes Gold. Experience Is Transformed. Pain Is Changed. Suffering May Become Song. The Ordinary Or Horrible Is Pushed By The Will Of The Writer Into Grace Or Redemption, A Prophetic Wail, A Screed For Justice, An Elegy Of Sadness Or Sorrow. ... There Is Always A Tension Between Experience And The Thing That Finally Carries It Forward, Bears Its Weight, Holds It In. Without That Tension, One Might As Well Write A Shopping List.

Men Who Want To Support Women In Our Struggle For Freedom And Justice Should Understand That It Is Not Terrifically Important To Us That They Learn To Cry; It Is Important To Us That They Stop The Crimes Of Violence Against Us.

Being Stigmatied By Sex Is Being Marked By Its Meaning In A Human Life Of Loneliness And Imperfection, Where Some Pain Is Indelible.

In Her Heart She Is A Mourner For Those Who Have Not Survived. In Her Soul She Is A Warrior For Those Who Are Now As She Was Then. In Her Life She Is Both Celebrant And Proof Of Women's Capacity And Will To Survive, To Become, To Act, To Change Self And Society. And Each Year She Is Stronger And There Are More Of Her.