“...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.”

“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.”

“...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.”

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

“A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.”

“Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.”

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