“ The emancipated educated woman is untouchable; she acquires an asexual protected dignity which is the reserve of the closeness of the traditional woman to her body. Individually she either accepts this situation or she attempts to enter the body of the woman who is still passive. As part of you leaps outside yourself, another part tries to reenter a self you have created in your own imagination. You make for yourself an image of suffering womanhood and let it bleed. You dwell continually on your female troubles. When you sleep with a man you enjoy him forcing you to submit. You are torn between shame and delight.
— Sheila Rowbotham in ‘Through the Looking Glass’ again. This piece is in my top three feminist writings. Rowbotham is an amazing writer and a fucking genius.