The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.

My knees have always been ugly.

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

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

The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.