I like a bit of spunk in a lady

... because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't afraid to risk making a fool of herself. Maybe you think that's something of no consequence but it isn't - for making a fool of yourself, offering yourself to others to laugh at, to jeer, that takes guts.

a feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can.

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists.

How about diamonds are a girl's best friends? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.

Lesson for young men: if you want your eventual wife to be excited about sucking your dick for forty years, don't create a generation of women who think enthusiasm about sex is a bad thing.

Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how sophisticated can hole-fucking really be

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

It is humanism that should run in the veins of the thinking humanity, not a certain gender-oriented ism. This entire book is a treatise on gender equality, and as such, it may be hailed as a work of feminism, but it is not - it is a work of humanism.

Women are not there to spike testosterone.

I am a feminist because in every woman I can see reflection of my mother.

I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

We're still not where we're going but we're still not where we were.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

A feminist man is like a jumbo shrimp, neither makes any sense.