I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.

It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

Renew your mind by flooding it with inspiring, empowering, educational and edifying thoughts and words.

Silence and creativity are very close friends!

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Everyone wants to be well-loved and appreciated but, at the same time, there are some people that just don't want to be your friend, and there's nothing you can do or say to change that.

I think its nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

My faith kind of keeps me in touch with the idea that I'm not in control of things.