"The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to m…"

"For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a ch…"

"The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women hav…"

"The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is …"

"Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the bod…"

"While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about wom…"

"Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another …"

"Seductive mirages of progress notwithstanding, nowhere in the world is apartheid practiced with more cruelty and fina…"

"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…"

"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 poli…"