Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.

Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.

Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.