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

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

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.

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.

Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

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

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.