Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

There are times when a woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective—women’s bank, women’s music, women’s studies, women’s caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

There’s more to Bunnyhood than stuffing bosoms.

Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be downplayed or forgotten.

Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

[A] rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.