Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist

Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.

I'm enormously less interested in whom you sleep with than I am in with whom you're prepared to die.

Sisterhood is powerful. It kills. Mostly sisters.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

The human being has enormous resources in the power to heal. And in those resources lie things that we ourselves need to clear or feel.

Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.