Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard

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.

Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.

Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.

You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.