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.

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

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

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

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

It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.