On being a woman

Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid
or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired
and what we look like is more important than what we do
and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it
and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches
and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid
and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man
and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy
and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights
we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females
and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man
and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive
but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy
we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...
for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement.
~Author unknown, quoted in The Torch, 14 September 1987