Take your time to read the quote below and put your prejudices on pause. Skip lesbian. Pause on womon and womyn. Skip the last name of the author. She claims that all individual homo sapiens of the female gender have a secret belief. The belief that she is on the edge of madness and is losing control. Almost every woman!
Question: Why is it kept secret? Why be on guard? (Is the claim still valid after 44 years?) Please lose control! Show me your temper, appetite, sexuality, feelings, ambition, secret fantasies, and mind. I'll be in a womanlike listening and questioning mode; and not in a manlike problem solving one. And if you want I'll not even ask questions.
P.S. Source: Elana Dykewomon, 'Notes for a Magazine'. In: Sinister Wisdom. A Journal for the Lesbian Imagination in the Arts and Politics. Number 36 (Winter 1988/89), 'Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities'. Copy: here.
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