“It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.”

“Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.”

“Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.”

“But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.”

“What do we have to do to make the women realize we don't hate 'em? Change our attitude on abortion? Where does this stuff stop?”

“The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes—to me a beatitude—is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses to be forgotten by us, and that the worst poverty women—or men—can suffer is to be bereft of their past.”

“If we believe that it is predominantly men who batter women, it is hard to see why women also need to change: We will continue saying, “Just change the men. They’re the batterers.””

“It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.”

“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”

“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”