I have always been good with them, but never good enough to be believed or helped. No, there were no shelters then. I come to speech from under a man, tortured and tormented. He hurt all the words out of me, and no one would listen anyway. I come to speech from under the brutalities of thousands of men.
Men act out pornography.
They have acted it out on me. Women's lives become pornography. And so for 20 years now I have been looking for the words to say what I know. Maybe Mr. Irving and others do not know that in the world of women, pornography is the real geography of how men use us and torment us and hate us. With Catharine A. MacKinnon, I drafted the first civil law against pornography.