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.

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

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.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The last thing America needs is four more years of Barack Obama.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued.

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost