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

There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.

loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.

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

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

When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth - that men are only equal - can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.