“The female life-force is characterized as a negative one: we are defined as inherently masochistic. [... ] Sexual masochism actualizes female negativity, just as sexual sadism actualizes male positivity. A woman’s erotic femininity is measured by the degree to which she needs to be hurt, needs to be possessed, needs to be abused, needs to submit, needs to be beaten, needs to be humiliated, needs to be degraded.”

Source: The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Ch. V : The Development of the Character-Analytic Technique

Cited in: SanSan Kwan, Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces, 2013 p. xxx; Talking about Shanghai
Text originate from a French-made documentary, where "Jin herself associated her (definitely female) identity with the city" of Shanghai.

Egwene al'Vere
(7 January 2003)

Source: 28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 98.

"Against Interpretation" (1964), p. 14
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)

Sexuality
Song lyrics, Controversy (1981)

Interview with David Brancaccio (2003)
Context: We need to maintain law and order. We need to maintain peace in the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some degree of social justice, equality of opportunity. The markets are not designed to take care of those needs. That's a political process. And the market fundamentalists have managed to reduce providing those public goods.

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)