The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.

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 true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you're working at.

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.

The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.