It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.

A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not.

Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him in most respects except the uniform. One possible tactic is to try to get the uniforms off.

Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.

It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must be more relentlessly supervised and repressed if the desired result is to ensue.

There is no " i " in team. But there are two in motivation.

When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

It wasn't enough, not nearly enough, but it was all there was.

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

I don't crave Hollywood.

The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.

Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream?

Sleep came slower than a frigid woman.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.