Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control of women as the means of reproduction came later, in the last five percent or so of human history, with the idea of children as property and labor. One needed to have as many as possible, never mind about women's health or mobility or brainpower. Women's freedom was restricted in order to make sure of the paternity and ownership of children.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.