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

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

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

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

“...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.”

“...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.)”

“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.”