“...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun.
(Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.)”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“That's the worst kind of love, I think. The kind that makes you crave the person who breaks you." - Annabel Thorne”
Source: Rip Me Apart
“A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort 'belongs' to her.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“It is only the failure of my plots I fear.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“...new theories and new movements do not develop in a vacuum, they arise to spearhead the necessary social solutions to new problems resulting from contradictions in the environment.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution