If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.