Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

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.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Half a brain is better than none.

Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100, 000 in 1962 180 per 100, 000 by 1964.

Enjoy it any way you can.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

I love feeling in touch with Mother Nature. Spending time outside - whether it's hiking, biking, walking on the beach, or lying in the sun - brings me clarity and energy.

Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It is a teacher, a clarifier, and your friend, especially if you are trying to make change.

Every single child should have the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.

I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city.