Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Remember: Resist do not comply.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

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

I also had nightmares. Somehow all the feelings I didn't feel when each thing had actually happened to me I did feel when I slept.

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.