The use of women as props for a sagging ego is accepted socially. Everybody sees it and everybody agrees that they don't. - Marge Piercy

A tendency to believe quite literally in the rhetoric of Movement males is a form of naiveté that no woman can afford.

"Those of your time who fought hard for change, often they had myths that a revolution was inevitable. But nothing is! All things interlock. We are only one possible future..." (p177)

Good work in a field breeds interest and makes room for more good practitioners. We are not rivals but workers building something whose final shape we are not able even to fantasize.