Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.

Two hours later, a noise resembling a hippo rolling along a corrugated iron roof shook Jane from her doze and Rob bursts through the living room door.

The moon blows kisses to the evening primrose

The day here is a something without value, a mere torment suffered by living creatures as they await the night. Night is deliverance.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

Im not crazy, Im just a little unwell.

There's nothing stopping you from making movies. You can always make and try different things.