“I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig.”
“Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.”
“Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women’s bodies.”
Under patriarchy, every woman’s son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.”
“To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.”
“Q: People think you are very hostile to men.
A: I am.”
“Men use the night to erase us.”
“The annihilation of a woman’s personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.”
“Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives.”
“Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it ‘Her’. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.”
“On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.”