We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class children who go to good schools and grow up to be p… - Germaine Greer

Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because all her love is guided by the search for security, if not for her offspring then for her crippled and fearful self, she cannot expect to find it in her own kind, whom she knows to be weak and unsuitable.

The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife.

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.