Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur..

When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be face….

I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originalit….

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly..

....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that steal….

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress..

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite….

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep.

I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an a….

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius..

Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility come….

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is..

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it..

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footno….

Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I k….

Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure sto….

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest..

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too..

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome..

Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in ….

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil..