Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

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

Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature. Many women give up in despair: if that's how deep it goes they don't want to know.

In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.

But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.

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.

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.