When you give up partnership relationships you also give up a certain kind of intimacy. But you gain a lot of freedom, and you also experience a wide… - Sally Kempton

I am no longer submissive, no longer seductive; perhaps it is for that reason that my husband tells me sometimes that I have become hard, and that my hardness is unattractive. I would like it to be otherwise. I think that will take a long time.

When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women. Most men can’t really imagine “equality.” All they can imagine is having the existing power structure inverted.

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.