She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex.

Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way.

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

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