“A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. Every little girl learns that from her mother.”
“When both our inner man and woman takes responsibility for themselves and lives their own truth, a joy and love begins to flow naturally between them. Healing means to develop the inner man and woman so that love can flow between them. Healing is to learn to love both our inner man and woman. It is to learn to live the truth of both the inner man and woman.”
“A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only... He can only love her.”
“[…] no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex […]”
“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
“No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.”