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Still unconscious yet of their lugubrious destiny, many a woman cherishes a far more modest ideal: to be released from the childbed and the kitchen, and to get access to wealth and spiritual prestige. Like Saint Mary, they would have followed Jesus in his ascent to heaven, were it not for the fact that, until recently, they have been anchored in the material world by their womb. As long as motherhood has been the inescapable fate of women, there was only one exit from their earthly cellar left: reproducing themselves in a divine son. Only through such desire can also female parenthood become spiritual and social. The symbol of these women is again the Holy Virgin, this time not the virgin that ascended to heaven, but her prefiguration: the mother of a divine son, who owes his life to a spiritual wind, not to all those nasty proceedings in the flesh. From her to Valerie Solanas and her Society for Cutting Off Man's Balls is only one step.
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