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

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

Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

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

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

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