It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.