My knees have always been ugly.

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

Act quickly, think slowly.

There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.