I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.

Never put a sock in a toaster.

This Life is More than Just a read through.

You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.

I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.'

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

I'm really scary in reality. Most of the time.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.