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

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.

Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied.

The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.