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

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it.

Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.

In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.

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

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.