Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

I'm really focused when I'm working out, so I don't really listen to music. I like to listen to music after, because it's like, 'Yeah! I finished! Let's party!

The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

I'm totally within the music. I'M LOST.

If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.

Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.