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.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

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

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy — when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it’s women who are going to have to break this spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation.