I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

The semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the form of different phases in the organization of a consciousness that is fundamentally social.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.