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

...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.

It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.

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.

The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.