Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the lat….

The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally..

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning..

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is..

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same..

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending..

Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the R….

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at..

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections..

I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ra….

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?.

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other..

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand..

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along..

Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a wo….

I am an artist and a political being as well..

I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures te….

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to tha….

We are the women men warned us about..

Sisterhood is powerful..