I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.

You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty, sixty, or seventy--all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics--many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.