The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.