Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

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.

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

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.

The secret to a happy life is your attitude. If you think positively, positive things will happen. If you think negatively... well where is the happiness?

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will

It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.

It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who watch it.