[...] behind every great man is a woman dedicated to his greatness whilst behind every great woman is a man dedicated to bringing her down.

The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim's ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men; our victim status ensures that we rarely have the opportunity.

I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all those who were not exactly like themselves, in all their unreason.

How pleased I was to see I strick the Beast to the heart.