I Have Opened All The Doors In

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.

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.

Loneliness Is Not A Longing For Company, It Is A Longing For Kind. And Kind Means People Who Can See You Who You Are, And That Means They Have Enough Intelligence And Sensitivity And Patience To Do That.

S And M Is Only The Expression In The Bedroom Of An Oppressive-submissive Relation Which Can Happen Also In The Kitchen Or At The Factory, Can Happen Between People Of Any Gender. There Is Obviously Something Titillating About These Relationships, But It Isn't The Sexual Components That Makes Them Ugly, They're Uglier Elsewhere. Nothing Sexual Is Depraved. Only Cruelty Is Depraved, And That's Another Matter.

Later, She Would Remember These Years, And Realize With Astonishment That She Had, By Fifteen, Decided On Most Of The Assumptions She Would Carry For The Rest Of Her Life: That People Were Essentially Not Evil, That Perfection Was Death, That Life Was Better Than Order And A Little Chaos Good For The Soul. Most Important, This Life Was All. Unfortunately, She Forgot These Things, And Had To Remember Them The Hard Way.