"It is an easy mistake for women to make, women whose culture trains them long and carefully to respond to masochism. An education in masochism is generally part of the conditioning of any group who experience being despised; their response of identifying with what degrades and humiliates them is illogical only on the surface: in fact, it has been carefully cultivated in them."

The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment (1994) ( —Kate Millett,(1994) ( x