Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

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

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has knowledge. Knowledge of male supremacy. Knowledge of what it is. Knowledge of what it feels like. And can begin to think strategically about how to stop it. We are living under a reign of terror. Now what I want to say is that I want us to stop accepting that that's normal. And the only way that we can stop accepting that that's normal is if we refuse to have amnesia everyday of our lives.

We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact, we live ina homosexual society because all credible transactions of power, authority, and authenticity take place among men; all transactions based on equity and individuality take place among men. Men are real; therefore, all real relationship is between men; all real communication is between men; all real reciprocity is between men; all real mutuality is between men.

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.