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

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

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