You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.

In this day and age we care more about our pride than our lives.

Banking on success is to spur personal growth.

Tedium is a dangerous thing, potentially lethal.

Good but not religious-good.

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.

I like to make my guitar sound mean.

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.

What worries me sometimes in the culture is that the role for music that actually challenges and enlightens the audience is being pushed to the sidelines.