Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

All men are rapists and that's all they are

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Sometimes, you can't say anything even yourself !

I found with my students they don't necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what's relevant to what's he doing you see.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit.