The family is neither private nor a refuge, but is directly connected to – is even the cause of – the ills of the larger society which the individual… - Shulamith Firestone

In the Middle Ages there was no such thing as childhood. The medieval view of children was profoundly different from ours.

Feminism, in truth, has a cyclical momentum all its own. In the historical interpretation we have espoused, feminism is the inevitable female response to the development of a technology capable of freeing women from the tyranny of their sexual-reproductive roles – both the fundamental biological condition itself, and the sexual class system built upon, and reinforcing, this biological condition.

Constant erotic stimulation of male sexuality coupled with its forbidden release through most normal channels are designed to encourage men to look at women as only things whose resistance to entrance must be overcome.