It's not that I want to victimize men, but I think that women have been the victims throughout the centuries, a fact which has been incorporated into mythology and which I thought it was high time to change.

All the worst things that happened to other women because they were women could happen to you because you were a woman. Even if you weren’t killed, something in you was, your sense of freedom, equality, confidence.

She had always suspected that even the calmest and sweetest women under stress were prone to outbursts of violence. Since she thought of herself as neither calm nor sweet, she had reckoned that her potential to lose control was considerably greater than theirs.

Wherever there are security issues arising from the environment, the women are always the default victims.

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

She regarded men as creatures made for women to dispose of.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

When a woman doesn't live sufficiently through her body, she comes to see the body as an enemy.

Women were doubly exploited.

Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.

She has had a hard life, but so does every woman.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

She knew she was being unfair...; she knew she was acting like the most vulgar of women, the kind that is out to cause pain and knows how.

How sorrowful is women's lot!" she cried.
"We all partake of woe, our common fate.