DU Book Club: Sisters by Lynne Cheney!

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an excerpt:

"Sophie looked at Lydia. Her color was high with feeling, and her eyes bright. Sophie noticed her lashes, long, dark, and upward-curving. This was no frail, other-worldly creature whose body was incapable of response. "Is it not possible," Sophie asked, choosing her words carefully, "that the pleasure of two human beings who love one another is transfiguring?"

"That's not how women are!" Lydia burst out. "It's not pleasure for women. That's only how men would like it to be." She paused, then leaned forward and continued, "And it is my perfect right to be as I am, to be as God meant me to be. Why should I demean myself by pretending I find so much pleasure in the act that I would seek it as an end in itself? And that's what the devices do. They don't emancipate. They reduce a woman to the level of a prostitute."

"There are women, then who enjoy--"

"Degraded women, dragged down by men. But they can be brought back to their true nature, rescued by good women showing them the way."

"And there are no good men?""

Get your pdf download here:

http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/lynne-cheney-sisters-full.pdf

Post your favorite passage!

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1. she's on cnn right now

The full interview. Watch her squirm. It's fun!

[Catherine Vincent]

3. Geeze.

And they call Hillary Clinton a bitch? She's the biggest bitch there is.

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2. I cannot fathom how Lynn Cheney wrote this.

These words are about women empowered and unified. I personally think its much more powerful than simple erotica in what she has written.

She writes of women supporting other women - empowering other women.

She has written of women not needing men. Or of women being free of the exploitation and enslavery by men.

She has written the direct contradiction of the life she lives today.

Fascinating.

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4. All 127 pages

Funny how things change. :)