Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?

The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.

Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.