When I was a young hippy, I thought marching naked would be a strong protest, but I don’t think it would be as effective now.
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.
I’m passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it’s the most neurotic life-style ever developed.
I believe in permanent revolution.
Pigs may like honey, but that doesn’t stop it being sweet.
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.
After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.
Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband’s house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.
You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one’s fertility.
Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is a boy. Likewise, many male children may be underdeveloped, or their genitals deformed or hidden and it is assumed that they are girls.
Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.
At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and “handsome is as handsome does,” she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.
The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom...
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man’s height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women’s bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.
Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.