First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.

Overall women in our society are forgetting the value and power of sisterhood. Renewed feminist movement must once again raise the banner high to proclaim anew "Sistehood is powerful.

A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving... There can be no love without justice.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it's one or the other.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

I think we should always listen to Bill Clinton about everything. And so, if that's his view then that should be the rule of law.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.