I love, cherish, and respect women in my mind, in my heart, and in my soul. This love of women is the soil in which my life is rooted. It is the soil of our common life together. My life grows out of this soil. In any other soil, I would die. In whatever ways I am strong, I am strong because of the power and passion of this nurturant love.

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.

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.

I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split.

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used.

...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.