Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

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

What happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune.

If you resolve to give up smoking drinking and loving you don't actually live longer it just seems longer.

The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.

This is my chance to make it all happen, in the one city, where they say dreams come true.

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.

My aim is to reflect the actual human-scape, a little bit.