This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.