“He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.”

“Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.”

“Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.”

“...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.”

“Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.”

“A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort 'belongs' to her.”

“The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects.”