It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

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

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.

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.

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.

all appears to change when we change

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Be therefore not anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow will be anxious for the things of itself.

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

People learn at the rate they are going to learn.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

I really rebel against authority.