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What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

One of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.

You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.

Monogamy and prostitution go together.

The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

Whatever the "real" differences between the sexes may be, we are not likely to know them until the sexes are treated differently, that is alike.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

Let's always be having an affair. Wherever we meet, however many times a year - let it always be an affair.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Probably one should never feel such gaiety or such despair. Better to operate on an even keep like Friedan and Gloria and the others.

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Under patriarchy the female did not herself develop the symbols by which she is described. As

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.

To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.

You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

The derogation of feminine status in lesser males is a consistent patriarchal trait. Like

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.