Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.
Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.
Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.
What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.
Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.
Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.