Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

All men are rapists and that's all they are

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

He looks up through blood smeared lips.

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

Polka will never die.

Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble.

Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

We used to wrestle every night, 385 times a year. For ten years. 365 days. Never had any holidays off, ever. Holidays were always two-day venues. Two event venues. Afternoon and night.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.