A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.

the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.

The personal is political.

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

To be worshiped is not freedom.

...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.