1973: “I have often been struck by how misogynistic most successful women are. They are eager to say how silly, boring, superficial, or tiresome they find other women, and how much they prefer the company of men. Like most men, who basically despise and patronize women, most ‘liberated’ women don't like or respect other women. If they don't fear them as sexual rivals, they fear them as professional rivals -wishing to guard their special status as women admitted into largely all-male professional worlds…” ~Susan Sontag from her extraordinary essays (new edition released recently)

ON WOMEN