There is always a time to make right what is wrong.

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.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

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

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

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

In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.