'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes..

For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's s….

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws..

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't ha….

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for….

Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age, dress, or color - distingu….

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inf….

loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough….

All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women….

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose y….

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons..

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face..

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world..

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in..

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege..

All men are rapists and that's all they are.

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters..

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them..