Historically, women are an oppressed people not by birthright, but by baptism. “Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence and spray of semen. It is profitable for the colonizers to confine our bodies from our own life processes... (Clarke, Cheryl “Lesbianism: an Act of Resistance,” pg 128-137)” Societies often create for women a false duplicity, where they are the creators, but also the unclean. Women in mythology appear as deceivers and tricksters; Judeo-Christian …showed first 75 words of 1777 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1777 total…women must face an identity crisis. Are they manipulative? Are they submissive? Perhaps the most difficult, most frightening proposition for women is that they are strong. That they have, within themselves, the capacity for greatness and success regardless of boundaries and the limits of men. Perhaps it is the most difficult proposition for us all to accept, but the sooner we vindicate the strength of ourselves, the sooner we can discover the strength of others.