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" Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back. "
Creative
Us
Religion
" Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. "
Courage
Key
Power
" Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as artwork, music, films, and organization of all kinds. "
Music
Body
Media
" For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku Klux Klan. "
Black
Church
Trying
" 'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil. "
Men
Plans
Plan
" I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know. "
Theology
Out
Know
" I don't want to be a fulfilled woman. "
Fulfilled
Want
Woman
" I hate the Bible. I always did. "
Did
Always
Bible
" I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions. "
Theory
Different
Living
" I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground. "
New
Creative
Breaks
" I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past. "
Order
Past
Trying
" I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think. "
Men
Ideas
Sexy
" It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. "
Creative
Human
Image
" I was honestly a Catholic. "
Honestly
Catholic
" Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess. "
Time
Create
Women
" Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics. "
Stolen
Cosmos
Magazine
" Radical feminism is still threatening. "
Threatening
Feminism
Still
" The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See. "
Integrity
See
Protest
" The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create. "
Yourself
Create
Risk
" Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.' "
Women
Think
Giving
" Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. "
Why
Why Not
Active
" Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze - springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process. "
Culture
Space
Journey
" Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. "
Us
Had
Naming
" Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves. "
Free
Women
Spirit
" Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics. "
Work
Religious
Many
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