All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

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.

And on that day, the day of truce, that day when not one woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because we can't begin it before that day. Before that day it means nothing, because it is nothing; It is not real; It is not true.

We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

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