Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.