Author of quotes: Gloria Steinem

Women become more radical with age. One day the army of gray-haired women will quietly conquer the planet.

I thought about it, watching little girls drawing hearts in notebooks or put a heart at the base of an exclamation mark. I wonder is it because they are so attracted to this primitive sign is that it is similar to part of their body?

If the overthrow of the five thousand years of Patriarchy seems overly global challenge, just focus on the celebration of some important steps along the way.

... imagine how the altar will return those priests, men and women will not humiliate female sexuality and debunk the myth of exceptional men's role in the Creation of the world, and increase the sacred words and symbols, and revive the idea of the presence of God's spirit in all living creatures.

In the 1970s, while doing research at the library of Congress, I came across an inconspicuous work on the architecture of religious buildings. It was stated that the traditional architecture, ancient places of worship copies the shape of the female body. And the fact this was presented as common knowledge. For example, the first entrance in the porch, and then in the temple is large and small labia, the Central aisle to the altar - vagina, two curved side of the nave - the ovaries, and a sacred place in the center of the altar is the womb, it is a miracle, and the man makes new life.
This comparison was new to me and shocked to the core. Of course, I thought. The main ceremony of Patriarchal religions, male absorbs the energy of the Yoni, the power of creation, symbolically creating a new life. It is not surprising that the heads of the world's religions, men often say that man is born in sin, any of us born of a woman. And only by obeying the rules of the Patriarchy can we be reborn, to purify themselves. No wonder the priests pass us, spraying above our heads Holy water - the similarity procreate seed that gives us new names and promise rebirth into eternal life. It is not surprising that the clergy is trying to keep the woman away from the altar, just as we are trying to deprive the ability to control our own procreation. All these rituals, symbolic or real, is devoted to the control of the power contained in the female body.

The book opens individually for each path into the future, with love to your body. I think that readers, both men and women, gleaned from these pages a sense of freedom in the perception of not only themselves and each other, but also alternatives to Patriarchal dualism of "man - woman", "body - mind", "sex spiritual", which originates in the division of our body into "parts, which they say" and "parts of which are silent".

These three decades of feminism were also marked by great unrest, as revealed new facts of violence against women: rape, pedophilia, lesbian humiliation, physical cruelty to women, sexual harassment, restriction of childbearing, international crimes related to female circumcision. All these previously unknown actions were exposed, which helped to protect many women. We turned her anger into the energy of creation, to suppress counter-violence and to heal emotional traumas.

And then one day I looked in the magazine "Ms.", they found, among other humorous titles: "it's 10 PM. Do you know where your clitoris?" And when feminists began to wear badges and t-shirts that say "CUNT POWER!", to return the value of the word "cunt", I was able to experience the revival of ancient power. In the end, the Indo-European word "cunt" was derived from references to the goddess Kali "Kunda" or "Kunti", which have a common root with the words "kin" (family) and "country" (country).

Upon returning home, I realized that American ideas about the female body too far from the cult of the Yoni and Eastern philosophy. Even the sexual revolution of the 1960s have brought to this sphere only one thing: women became sexually available to men. "No," 1950 just changed to DC, ready for anything, "Yes."

I am from the generation "there." That is exactly occasionally and almost in a whisper, the women of my family all called genitals, external and internal.

A woman without a man is like a fish without an umbrella.

The best way to become lonely is to get married.

Pornography is a manual, violence practice.

Women are not more moral than men, but less spoiled by power.