There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.

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.

Love permeates all and energizes life.Even evil has love. If not, she is dead.

If you're going to choose to do something like the Paleo Diet, then you choose not to enjoy your nights out.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.