“It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.” WorldMayRealityMightAbleLastsHumanityPoliticsSexProcessWomenDealsRaceHalfRevolutionBearsAimWaveAccomplishDesertSexismRetiringHarshSubordinationSexual RevolutionHarsh Reality Book:Sexual Politics Source: Sexual Politics
“You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.” IfsWellsMaySelfAmericaAsksTermPossibilityPaperWitDesperatePrivacyAutobiographyPublicityOutrageousGimmicks Book:Flying Source: Flying
“Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.” HumansMaySaidValuesCultureIndividualAttitudeActivityModelsAffairVarietyPlanesVacuumsMicrocosmPhysical Activity Book:Sexual Politics Source: Sexual Politics
“However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power” MayCulturePowerConceptsFundamentalsAppearanceIdeologyNeverthelessDominion Book:Sexual Politics Source: Sexual Politics
