Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

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.

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

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

People buy a cat and think, 'Oh that's a beautiful collar. I'll put that on, ' but that doesn't make them a responsible pet owner.

All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.

Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

People want the truth, even if they disagree.

Your true cosmopolitan is born, not made. He is very rare.

He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that.

When it seems impossible like nothing is going to work, you are usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen.