I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

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.

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence.

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.