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

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

“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.”

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

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