Six men control almost all the media in the United States--book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappe...
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
They leave the genitals off Barbie and Ken, but they manufacture every kind of war toy. Because sex is more threatening to us than aggression. There have been strict rules about sex since the beginnin...
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Pride. You have it where you can have it.
All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
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 yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't...
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
Después, mucho después, recordaría aquellos años y comprendería asombrada que a los quince ya se había decidido por la mayoría de los postulados que sostendría durante el resto de su vida: que las per...
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.
They saw women in the public sphere as whores, thieves, she-men with the audacity to carry guns and wear pants.
It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men take such behavior as being directed entirely at them. [...]I've often seen blushing you...
Nineteenth-century feminism was defeated by men's adamant refusal to take responsibility for maintaining themselves and their children;
When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than...
In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Male territorial insanity yields only to another male. What a difference the possession of a penis makes!
It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.
I see us as all sitting around naked, shivering, in a huge circle, looking up as the sky turns black and the stars flare out and somebody starts to tell a story, claims to see a pattern in the stars....
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.