Ellen Willis Quote

Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.

No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays (ed. U of Minnesota Press, 2012) - ISBN: 9780816680795