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.

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

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

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

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

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