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It might be nice to come up with a genuine "definition" of sexuality -- is it possible? Maybe that's a male/elitist viewpoint, that there could a single definition. But I think each of us may have to define gender for herself -- that is, with little concern for what another's gender may be but a serious examination of one's own. And I don't mean mine in particular, but know that I love male companionship, am a mother and grandmother, married twice, am now in (a fairly impossible but often fun) long-term M/F relationship, but have often wondered about a F/F sexual relationship, never having gotten close enouigh to one to break the inherent (for my generation) barriers. So I continue to wonder. And now I wonder if the readings could help me develop, if not a single definition for my own path, at least a set of working definitions that would get me through the final 20 or so years on Earth.

I'm also realizing for the first time that lesbianism may be -- is it? -- a steppingstone to a fuller understanding of womynly potential. Suddenly I see it as a sci-fi proposition, that the womyn of the future might be what is today defined as a lesbian -- objective, not M/F centered. Maybe that will be the resolution of the current male image crisis: men will accept their feminine as we accept our masculine (it was never all their fault, we acceded to the hierarchy).

I think I'll vote for Hillary!

Mary Clurman '63