Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.

Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?

Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women.

On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.