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.

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

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age, dress, or color - distinguishes a man who will harm a woman from one who will not.

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

For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women's bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women's bodies and regulate their appearance in some way.