Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.

The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all.

The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.

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.

The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.