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]]]] WOPERSONS, THE SENSITIVE, THE AWARE, AND THE RELEVANT [[[[[[
"How long has it been since you spent a few days in the intimate
company of women; dressing and undressing, talking, showering,
resting...?
For me, high school gym class came the closest. But that was the
repressive fifties when even the most daring of us hid behind their
towels, and others were so insecure ... that they went through group
showers with their underwear on."
GLORIA STEINEM in MS., April 1982
"We've experienced it with the lone survivor in `On the Beach'
we've contemplated it with Jonathan Schell in "The Fate of the Earth,"
and we've agonized over it with the Physicians for Social Respon-
sibility.
"Now we can worry about it with our dogs.
"Yes, if and when the bombs fall, they won't just fall on humans;
they'll also fall on dogs (and cats and giraffes and alligators and
cockroaches and cockatoos)."
Book review of "Nuclear War Manual for Dogs"
in the BALTIMORE SUNDAY SUN, 23 Dec. 1982
"I am a male WASP who attended (and succeeded) at Choate (prepa-
ratory) School, Yale College, Yale Law School and Princeton Graduate
School. Slowly but surely [I came] to see that white, male-dominated,
western European culture is the most destructive phenomenon in the
known history of our planet.
"With all its creative brilliance, it is deeply hateful of life
and committed to death; therefore, it is moving rapidly toward the
destruction of itself and most other life forms on earth. And truly,
it deserves to die."
Benjamin T. Hopkins, Chestertown, Md.,
in MOTHER JONES, Dec. 1982
"Sex by eight or else it's too late" RENE GYUON SOCIETY
(of homosexuals), Los Angeles
[meant is not 8 o'clock, but 8 years of age]
"I recall the time I woke up with a fierce headache, and when
nothing else helped, I went to the Univ. of Calif. experimental pine
grove on San Pablo Avenue and carefully selected a tree. Wrapping my
arms around that pine I felt its inner strength on my body, and I
fully opened my heart to its power. In a few moments my headache
disappeared."
Dr. Stephen Weinreb, M.D.
Open Education Exchange, Berkeley, Calif., 1983
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"The country is torn up in an anti-drug hysteria that goes beyond
truth and justice... In the 1950s. we had communism and loyalty
oaths. In the 1980s, we have urine tests."
Abbie Hoffman,
Drug user, bail-jumper, theft advocate, antinuclear activist,
Lecturing at the University of Idaho [Why?]
(Denver Post, 13/9/86)
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"I was a political prisoner... [deprived of] my right to live on
the street." Joyce Brown, on her stay in hospital, in
lecture at Harvard University, 2/18/88, before return-
ing to New York, where she defecates in the street and
calls bypassers obscene names (see COMMENTARY 5/1988).
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"I protest the headline on a recent editorial, `Quagmires
Revisited,' which had to do with the situation in Afghanistan. It only
adds to the unconscious slander we all engage in when we use as
pejoratives words to describe wetlands... Used as metaphor, these
words take on a sinister meaning, and it's my thesis that it lends
power to the forces that are destroying our remaining wetlands..."
Sierra Club Legal Defense writer in
letter to New York Times, May 1988.
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