We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are progr….

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact..

Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps..

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world..

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography..

The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized….

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it..

I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds..

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women..

Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they become….

Remember: Resist do not comply..

One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man..

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genufl….

In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice..

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice..

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for..

When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love..

Touch is the meaning of being human..

Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone..

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero beca….

The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, ….