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Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world ...

Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate
and I wish I could find one.

Love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon
it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.

Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort 'belongs' to her.

To be worshiped is not freedom.

The personal is political.

A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.

The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects
if never erotic objects.

The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.

For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.

It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.

Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.

It is only the failure of my plots I fear.

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.

But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.

The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.