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The first responsibility of a ‘liberated’ woman is to lead the fullest, freest and most imaginative life she can. The second responsibility is her solidarity with other women. She may live and work and make love with men. But she has no right to represent her situation as simpler, or less suspect, or less full of compromises than it really is. Her good relations with men must not be bought at the price of betraying her sisters.

from The Third World of Women (Sontag’s ‘most complete feminist manifesto’), first pub’d in Partisan Review, 1973.

The first responsibility of a ‘liberated’ woman is to lead the fullest, freest and most imaginative life she can. The second responsibility is her solidarity with other women. She may live and work and make love with men. But she has no right to represent her situation as simpler, or less suspect, or less full of compromises than it really is. Her good relations with men must not be bought at the price of betraying her sisters.

from The Third World of Women (Sontag’s ‘most complete feminist manifesto’), first pub’d in Partisan Review, 1973.