If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?

To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.

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

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

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.