When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious..

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppress….

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility..

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up wil….

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see….

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible..

Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will..

I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reaction….

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of ….

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form..

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love..

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human..

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange..

Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolut….

When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with whic….

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I t….

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self..

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people st….

There's something contagious about demanding freedom..

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise..

... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical ….