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

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.

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

in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

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.

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.

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