I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

Where love passes it leaves an indelible mark

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built.

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.

I don't believe in predestined fate. The future is what we choose to create.

Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented.

There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.

The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.