Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in the own minds.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.