Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.

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

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.

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.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.