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

To be worshiped is not freedom.

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.

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

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

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.