Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired,can convince the actor herself that her ideal female life is not a dreadful form of dying.

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

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

Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human.

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.

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

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.