In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.
You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.
[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.
Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.
I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Persuade assumes that the other person is going to make the decision. Especially as a writer and an activist, I want the power to put ideas and possibilities out there, but I understand that they will only work if they are freely chosen, so I don't want the power to dictate or to force the choice, ever.
