Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.

The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further undermine family structure while contributing to the freedom of women.