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.

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

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

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

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.

No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.

the 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value.