Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
– Freda Adler
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
– Freda Adler
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
– Freda Adler
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
– Freda Adler
The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.
– Freda Adler
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.