Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.
The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.
Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
