I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.
Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be,. . . not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.
Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.
Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.
I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.
If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is no.
It’s a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron) Reverse PMS? (Artemis) Yeah, unlike a normal woman, you’re cranky twenty-eight days out of the month. (Acheron)
Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!