“Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.”
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Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
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.