“Soy dueña de mi vida. Soy dueña de mis actos.”
“That s the glory of being a man. An ugly face isn t the end of you.”
“The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.”
“John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.”
“The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.”
“As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn t prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn t have to beg him for financial support.”
“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
“As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, Hate generalizes, love specifies . Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.”
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
“Why do people say grow some balls ? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
“I hate men who are afraid of women s strength.”
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
“It s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”