“It’s when people leave their “place” in the social heirarchy that the trouble starts. It’s when they start getting uppity and rebellious that they invoke the wrath of the complacent and of the powerful.”
“Her journey was now to be with women. Only women. Because of women. And partly because she had seemed to feel, and to wonder aloud, about the possibility that only women, these days, dreamed of rivers, and were alarmed that they were dry.”
“you see these same beauty contest winners years later, grown old, in supermarkets; they are fussy, insane, bitter, demeaned - they put their stock in something unlasting, they were tricked; beware the sharp knives of their shopping carts - they are the madwomen of the Universe.”
“No woman born in this world is immune to the pleasures of being good. We are born to goodness; it is our birthright. Only sheer grit and pigheaded obstinacy make us demand the right to be bad, for we know that only by being bad can we become ourselves.”
“Why didn’t anybody tell us that if women got strong, men would get doubly weak - as if out of spite?”
“Women are Christian motorcycle dykes, militantly hetero Muslim theological scholars, Jewish-Chinese bisexual macrobiotic ballerinas and Chippewa shawomen who fuck not just lovers, but Time and Silence too.”
“In the twenty-first century, Christianity, Islam and Judaism are still dominated by unenlightened males of every race in the East and in the West. Until women are truly heard in the church, the mosque, and the synagogue, the feminine expression of the Divine Attributes of the Creator cannot be experienced, and war will ultimately destroy [...]