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

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

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.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.