There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women... All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey.

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

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.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.