

And above all other prohibitions, what has been forbidden to women is anger, together with the open admission of the desire for power and control over one's life (which inevitably means accepting some degree of power and control over other lives).
In the end, the changed life for women will be marked, I feel certain, by laughter. It is the unfailing key to the new kind of life; It is the laughter of women together that is the revealing sign, the spontaneous recognition of insight and love and freedom.
~Carolyn G. Heilbrun