Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.

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

To be worshiped is not freedom.

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

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.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

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.