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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.
The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.
If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
When I was a young hippy, I thought marching naked would be a strong protest, but I don't think it would be as effective now.
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.
Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.
I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.
After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.
I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.
Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.