No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.

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.

As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy the polar realities of men and women as we now know them so that this division of human flesh into two camps--one an armed camp and the other a concentration camp--is no longer possible. Phallic identity is real and it must be destroyed. Female masochism is real and it must be destroyed.

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

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, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

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