Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice.

[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.

What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage.

Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.