If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

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

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.

Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I'll wrench them away,then I'll take my leave & I won't even look back

The left understands the media. The left wields it, and the right sits on the sidelines and complains.

If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock." He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty name-calling.

Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.

The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?

Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I don't have one style that I want to take from movie to movie.

Compared with me, a tree is immortal.