Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.

Sometimes when the world goes dark, and everyone turns their backs on you, just look to the sky to see the light, and follow the stars to paradise

Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day

Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self.

Faith is a decision we make about where we are going to put our trust.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.

Change can only be in the limited.