This was Wolf's 'Message No. 3' in her four-part backlash survival kit — delivered as a single sentence with no elaboration. The brevity was deliberate. After the longer arguments of Messages 1 and 2 (redefining womanhood and demanding fair pay), this stark imperative landed with the force of a proverb. The line worked on multiple levels. It was practical advice about abusive relationships. It was a feminist principle about the connection between domestic labor and emotional exploitation. And in its very directness — its refusal to qualify or explain — it modeled the kind of fearless speech Wolf was advocating throughout the address. The audience at Scripps, a women's college, would have understood both the humor and the seriousness underneath.