A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.

In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.

If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold, distant, difficult, cruel fathers who made them feel that there was no alternative or, at a minimum, who made them choose someone like their father in order to change in this other man what they couldn't change in their fathers.

When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.