The Creative Mind Is Intelligence In Action

The Creative Mind Is Intelligence In Action In The World.

I Don’t Believe Rape Is Inevitable Or Natural. If I Did, I Would Have No Reason To Be Here. If I Did, My Political Practice Would Be Different Than It Is. Have You Ever Wondered Why We [women] Are Not Just In Armed Combat Against You? It’s Not Because There’s A Shortage Of Kitchen Knives In This Country. It Is Because We Believe In Your Humanity, Against All The Evidence.

Truth Is Harder To Bear Than Ignorance, And So Ignorance Is Valued More--also Because The Status Quo Depends On It; But Love Depends On Self-knowledge And Self-knowledge Depends On Being Able To Bear The Truth.

The Will To Domination Is A Ravenous Beast. There Are Never Enough Warm Bodies To Satiate Its Monstrous Hunger. Once Alive, This Beast Grows And Grows, Feeding On All The Life Around It, Scouring The Earth To Find New Sources Of Nourishment. This Beast Lives In Each Man Who Battens On Female Servitude.

For A Mother The Project Of Raising A Boy Is The Most Fulfilling Project She Can Hope For. She Can Watch Him, As A Child, Play The Games She Was Not Allowed To Play; She Can Invest In Him Her Ideas, Aspirations, Ambitions, And Values - Or Whatever She Has Left Of Them; She Can Watch Her Son, Who Came From Her Flesh And Whose Life Was Sustained By Her Work And Devotion, Embody Her In The World. So While The Project Of Raising A Boy Is Fraught With Ambivalence And Leads Inevitably To Bitterness, It Is The Only Project That Allows A Woman To Be - To Be Through Her Son, To Live Through Her Son.