Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.

It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.

You will never be pretty enough, skinny enough, smart enough, successful enough, or famous enough for the media

To reveal the necessity of the kingdom to others is to live by it

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

The more you defend in the face of a critical audience, the more you polarize.

The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.

There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room.