Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.