Great Throughts Treasury

"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."

"I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist."

"And yet wherever there exists the display of power there is politics, and in women's relations with men there is a continual transfer of power, there is, continually, politics."

"Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing."

"All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will."

"Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds. "