Touch Is The Meaning Of Being Human.

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.

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.

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.

Heterosexual Intercourse Is The Pure, Formalized Expression Of Contempt For Women's Bodies.

Men Characterize Pornography As Something Mental Because Their Minds, Their Thoughts, Their Dreams, Their Fantasies, Are More Real To Them Than Women's Bodies Or Lives; In Fact, Men Have Used Their Social Power To Characterize A $10-billion-a-year Trade In Women As Fantasy.