每个觉醒的女人都能回忆起一系列几乎无穷无尽的针对她自我的压迫、侵犯、侮辱、攻击行为。每个女人都受到过这样的攻击——在精神层面上,一个被殴打的女人。
(Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.)