All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want … - Marilyn French

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Marilyn French

All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women. . . All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey.

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To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

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Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

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The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

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If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. Feminism has to do with everything in the world, a vision of how the world can be. I have great doubts about Utopias, but I just keep on thinking there is a better way to live than the way we live now.

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My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don’t even need to shrug. I simply don’t care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don’t matter.

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