I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

And on that day, the day of truce, that day when not one woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because we can't begin it before that day. Before that day it means nothing, because it is nothing; It is not real; It is not true.

...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.

Remember: Resist do not comply.

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

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.