It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.

Don't agonize, organize.

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

I'm going to have some fabulous nights out with champagne.

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.

Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

Elegance and beauty have been banished.