To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.