I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

Sisterhood is powerful.

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

Plant the seeds of trust and compassionMake caring and sharing a life's missionHold hand with dreams of greatness Peace will grow with beauty and fragrance.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.

But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.

My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

I am working on three things: on being a prayerful person; on staying close to the handicapped; and on my writing. These are my constant concerns.

I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.

The older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids.

Kundalini cures you, she improves you, she bestows all the blissful things upon you. She takes you away from the worries of grosser level.

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?