Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power.

Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

Women intend to save themselves when sacrificing some women, but only the freedom of all women protects any woman.

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

Social outrage is power protecting itself; it is not morality.

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

Only the toughest among women will make the necessary next moves, the revolutionary moves, and among prostituted women one finds the toughest if not always the best. If prostituted women worked together to end male supremacy, it would end. Surviving degradation is an ongoing process that gives you rights, honor and knowledge, because you earn them.

Men use the night to erase us.

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.

In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it's needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.