Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and ….

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out neverthel….

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make uni….

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men..

One needs either equality or political and economic superiority..

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible..

Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to requi….

The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resour….

The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men..

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do….

Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has knowledge. Knowledge of male suprem….

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do ….

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it..

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, o….

How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to ….

Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating wom….

The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality..

Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledg….

Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live i….

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consume….