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The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and other commonplaces of female experi ence that are excavated from the past or given by contemporary survivors should leave the heart seared, the mind in anguish, the conscience in upheaval. But they do not. No matter how often these stories are told, with whatever clarity or eloquence, bitterness or sorrow, they might as well have been whispered in wind or written in sand: they disappear, as if they were nothing. The tellers and the stories are ignored or ridiculed, threatened back into silence or destroyed, and the experience of female suffering is buried in cultural invisibility and contempt… the very reality of abuse sustained by women, despite its overwhelming pervasiveness and constancy, is negated. It is negated in the transactions of everyday life, and it is negated in the history books, left out, and it is negated by those who claim to care about suffering but are blind to this suffering. The problem, simply stated, is that one must believe in the existence of the person in order to recognize the authenticity of her suffering. Neither men nor women believe in the existence of women as significant beings. It is impossible to remember as real the suffering of someone who by definition has no legitimate claim to dignity or freedom, someone who is in fact viewed as some thing, an object or an absence. And if a woman, an individual woman multiplied by billions, does not believe in her own discrete existence and therefore cannot credit the authenticity of her own suffering, she is erased, canceled out, and the meaning of her life, whatever it is, whatever it might have been, is lost. This loss cannot be calculated or comprehended. It is vast and awful, and nothing will ever make up for it.


Andrea Dworkin


#life #loss #patriarchy #women #experience

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.


Darrell Issa


#both #both sides #falling #inherent #into

At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.


Leon Jouhaux


#appeared #attention #capitalist #classes #competition

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.


Charlie Kaufman


#everyone #ground #here #inherent #interest

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.


Jonathan Kozol


#adult #basic #children #even #fifteen

There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.


William Vickrey


#cannot #employment #full #genuine #inherent

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.


Len Wein


#dishonest #go #i #i think #inherently

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.


Cassandra Wilson


#american #american music #davis #doing #forms

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.


Chauncey Wright


#decrees #following #frustrated #generally #habits

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.


Chauncey Wright


#civilization #combined #energies #genius #individual