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

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

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

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

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

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.