Occupation: Author Birth: September 25, 1952
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few..
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts….
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized..
I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole..
Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individ….
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously..
Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger..
A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing ….
My students tell me, we don't want to love! We're tired of being loving! And I say to them, if you're tired of being loving, then you haven't really ….
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to ….
Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have ….
To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes….
... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial sol….
The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will c….
Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships..
... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to re….
Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life..
War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives a….
The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the ….
Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire..
Language is also a place of struggle..