He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

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

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

The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it.

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

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.