Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.

One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that's what it is for most women- is because that is the best way to keep women sexually available.

Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking.

Touch is the meaning of being human.

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

Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can use her body. They define precisely the dimension of her physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one.