It is no longer enough to point out what we don't like, we have to work out 'What sort of society do we want?

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

the so-called women's question is a whole-people question.

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.

It’s a pity that virgins can’t be issued with some kind of barcode. Think of the problems that would have saved you.

When 'The Sound of Music' aired live on NBC, 18 million people were talking about theater the next day. That's incredible. 'Grease' felt like a chance for me to participate in that landscape.

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.

It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe.

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.