Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.