I loved all the world's mythologies.
He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.
In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.
Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be,. . . not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.
Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.
The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three times that height, but will serve the same imposing purpose.
The future begins today.
I remember going on vacation for two weeks once and one of my clients who was very clinically depressed really could not handle it, really unraveled himself. That scared me. I didn't want to be in that position.
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.