24-01-2022, 10:40 AM
To the editor
(in response to an anti choice article by Hugo Carl Koch in a Playboy magazine)
'There is only one way in which to get through to Hugo Carl Koch, & I'm working on it. Just as soon as I've developed my powers of witchcraft, I will turn him into a middle-class mother of three pre schoolers.
And on his/her very worst day, when the washing machine has conked out, she's had a fight with her husband, she's received an overdraft notice from the bank, the three year old has flushed his firetruck down the toilet (which is now spilling over into the hall) after tossing her glasses into the the garbage disposal, the two year old has smeared his faeces all over the living room wall & the baby has been crying & vomiting down her back all day - then, I will give her a missed period.'
Shirley L Radl
Pulling our own strings, Gloria Kaufman & Mary-Kay Blakely.
'A doctor pointed out that oestrogen (the female hormone) is at its lowest cycle during the menstrual cycle. So at our 'worst' we are most like the way men are all the time'
Now newsletter, Chicago
'Society consists of human beings, but if human beings have no value, then society has no value.'
Harry Wu, troublemaker
'Modern medicine has not really prolonged life - not REAL life; it has just lengthened the process of dying.'
Out to pasture, Effie Leland Wilder
'No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, & if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.'
Nelson Mandela, Long walk to freedom
'Violence to others is soul abuse; when you hurt others you hurt yourself. The most gorgeous man in the world who deliberately causes the sufferings of anyone, but especially of a woman or a child, becomes hideous.'
Alice Walker, The same river twice
'The character building virtues of self help are regularly preached by those who do not want to give help to those in desperate need.'
Eva Figes, A child at war
(in response to an anti choice article by Hugo Carl Koch in a Playboy magazine)
'There is only one way in which to get through to Hugo Carl Koch, & I'm working on it. Just as soon as I've developed my powers of witchcraft, I will turn him into a middle-class mother of three pre schoolers.
And on his/her very worst day, when the washing machine has conked out, she's had a fight with her husband, she's received an overdraft notice from the bank, the three year old has flushed his firetruck down the toilet (which is now spilling over into the hall) after tossing her glasses into the the garbage disposal, the two year old has smeared his faeces all over the living room wall & the baby has been crying & vomiting down her back all day - then, I will give her a missed period.'
Shirley L Radl
Pulling our own strings, Gloria Kaufman & Mary-Kay Blakely.
'A doctor pointed out that oestrogen (the female hormone) is at its lowest cycle during the menstrual cycle. So at our 'worst' we are most like the way men are all the time'
Now newsletter, Chicago
'Society consists of human beings, but if human beings have no value, then society has no value.'
Harry Wu, troublemaker
'Modern medicine has not really prolonged life - not REAL life; it has just lengthened the process of dying.'
Out to pasture, Effie Leland Wilder
'No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, & if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.'
Nelson Mandela, Long walk to freedom
'Violence to others is soul abuse; when you hurt others you hurt yourself. The most gorgeous man in the world who deliberately causes the sufferings of anyone, but especially of a woman or a child, becomes hideous.'
Alice Walker, The same river twice
'The character building virtues of self help are regularly preached by those who do not want to give help to those in desperate need.'
Eva Figes, A child at war
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)