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

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.

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

Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.

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.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.