I am a dangerous woman
Carrying neither bombs nor babies
Flowers nor molotov cocktails.
I confound all your reason, theory, realism
Because I will neither lie in your ditches
Nor dig your ditches for you
Nor join in your armed struggle
For bigger and better ditches.
I will not walk with you nor walk for you,
I won’t live with you
And I won’t die […]
So if you are in debt, sisters, and I know that most of us are, then let us synapse correctly about our situation. Let us understand that our debt was planned, engineered for us before we were even born. Let us understand that there is a reason why the most meaningful and the most necessary […]
I am talking here about the need for every woman to live a considered life. The necessity for that consideration grows and deepens as one faces directly one’s own mortality and death. Self scrutiny and an evaluation of our lives, while painful, can be rewarding and strengthening journeys toward a deeper self. […]
Classist behavior is rooted in one basic idea: class supremacy—that the individuals of the upper and middle class are superior to those of the lower classes. Middle class people are taught to think that we are better than working class people and we act out that superiority and self-righteousness in a thousand daily ways. Class […]
Don’t tell me that i don’t understand these ‘poor angry young men, starved for personal power’; take a look at what the white man has done with all that personal power. Do you dare think people of other races lack ambition? Behind every angry young man, regardless of his color, is a repressed angry woman […]
Why can’t women allow themselves the outlet of their contained anger? Why do those around them find an angry woman so frightening that they must demoralize and deflate her into a degraded, inauthentic calm? Healthy anger says “I’m a person. I have certain human rights which you can’t deny. I have […]
Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. Researchers S.C. Wooley and O.W. Wooley confirmed what most women know too well–that concern with weight leads to ‘a virtual collapse of self-esteem and sense of effectiveness.’ Researchers J. Polivy and C.P. Herman found that […]
As part of the ongoing series on self-defense and Fight Back! here at Feminist Reprise, I asked my friend Mel to write about her recent experiences with Shotokan Karate. Here is what she had to say, in her own words.
I’ve always been interested in the martial arts for as long as I can remember. […]
We are a group of fat women who met in a weekly problem-solving group for one year. The group’s facilitators were two fat members of the Los Angeles Radical Feminist Therapy Collective (L.A.R.F.T.C.). The group was a fat liberation group. We wanted to develop self-respect as fat women; to take back our […]
For me to live in this man’s world, I need some kind of pain killer, something I can pull out at a moment’s notice and put between me and the men on the street, because sometimes, I could really kill ‘em. They’re the foulest beasts walking on two feet and they’re always in packs, […]
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