No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it

Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.