Occupation: Writer Birth: February 27, 1936
people are strong despite suffering, not because of it..
I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling..
Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission..
Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience..
The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women..
Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings..
The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst ….
We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions,….
One of my favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church. If women simply stop giving ou….
I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Be….
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of h….
There has been only one war fought literally worldwide, affecting every living thing, and that has been men's all-out, non-stop, millennia-long war a….
I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of histo….
Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy..
Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights..
As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my pow….
In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second..
One of the basic tenets of radical feminism is that any woman in the world has more in common with any other woman regardless of class, race, age, et….
We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task….
The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim t….
Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - ….