” I became a feminist as an alternative to being a masochist.”
–Sally Kempton (attributed)
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Quoted in The Heretic’s Handbook of Quotations
True story: Years ago, I was tabling at the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair, and a woman clad
in black leather walked up to the table, saw that quote on a bumper sticker,
and screamed at me, “What’s wrong with masochism??!!”
