The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

I never met a man who wasn't stupider than me.

I have to ask you to resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for.

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.