Who said “Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better…”?

“Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.”

“A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.”

“Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.”

“In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.”

“Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.”

“Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.”

“While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.”

“The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.”

“By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of ''I am afraid,'' we say, ''I don't want to,'' or ''I don't know how,'' or ''I can't.''”

“Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.”

“The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.”