Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.
In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.
Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be,. . . not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.
Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.
Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.
O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.
Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.
There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.