Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.

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.

And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Ari is beautiful beyond comparison, and she has my heart and my soul for eternity. I thought I made that abundantly clear last night, but it appears I have further work to do.

True gratitude ascends to the highest altitudes.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.

Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage

I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

You're financially independent if you have $15,000 coming in and $14,900 going out.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.