Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

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.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Reveal the timeless beauty of Nature’s special places.

I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.

The only way to succeed in life is to never give up. Oftentimes, it requires standing alone.

Is your dog in a coma?" Quinn asked when the dog didn't move a muscle."No. Lump leads an active and demanding internal life that requires long periods of rest.

Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.

I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

It wasn’t me! Look at how little I am. I’m a little guy.