Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

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.

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

When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.

The longest journey is not the journey from Asia to Antarctica, but it is the journey to know yourself.

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water

Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.

For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.

What love lays bare in me is energy.