The Backlash! - October 1996

Feminism Unclothed

Where we turn the soapbox over to the feminists, themselves.

In all generations, we still lack that confidence to seize power and have a tendency to wait to be invited.
- Congresswoman Susan Molinari, Working Woman, October 1996

I believe that the "violence" of the oppressed is inherently a form of extended self- defense -- that is, a desperate response to the older violence of the oppressor.

- Robin Morgan, Going Too Far

It is not exclusivity of sex that feminists oppose, but sexual exclusivity of power.

- Marilyn French, Beyond Power

Violence is the authentic proof of each one's loyalty to himself, to his passions, to his own will; radically to deny this is to deny oneself any objective truth, it is to wall oneself up in an abstract subjectivity; anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination. It is a profound frustration not to be able to register one's feelings upon the face of the world.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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