Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially...

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially...

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for...

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for...

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to...

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to...

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social...

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social...

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms...

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms...

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She...

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She...

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing...

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing...

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how...

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how...

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Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand...

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Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or...

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Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it...

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Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove...

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove...

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or...

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or...

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent...

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent...

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are...

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are...

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead...

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead...

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from...

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from...