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

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

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

Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.

Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.