The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.

one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.

Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.

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

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.