""Because a woman's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important then what we can do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nyphos and if we don't we are frigid and if we love women it's because we cant get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and or pushy and if we expect childcare we are selfish and if we stand up for our rights we are aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we dont we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we dont we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we cant cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and..... for lots and lots of other reasons...(I)we (am) are a part of the women's liberation movement"
Audre Lorde- excerpt from "Sister Outsider" - The Crossings Press, 1984
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