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Martha Shelley Quotes

born 1943 United States

Martha Shelley (born December 27, 1943) is an activist, writer, and poet best known for her involvement in lesbian feminist activism in the USA.

United States
20th-century poets
Activists
Authors
Feminists

Random Martha Shelley quote

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We are the extrusions of your unconscious mind-your worst fears made flesh.

What is strange to you is natural to us.

We want something more now, something more than the tolerance you never gave us.

We exist outside the traditional structure-and our existence threatens it.

You will never be rid of us, because we reproduce ourselves out of your bodies-and out of your minds. We are one with you.

We are the sort of people everyone was taught to despise-and now we are shaking off the chains of self-hatred and marching on your citadels of repression.

We're gonna make our own revolution because we're sick of revolutionary posters which depict straight he-man types and earth mothers, with guns and babies. We're sick of the Panthers lumping us together with the capitalists in their term of universal contempt-"faggot."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Martha Shelley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.