When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you...then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.

The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.