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

The personal is political.

A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.

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

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

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

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.