being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

Sisterhood is powerful.

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

If Beyoncé Knowles and Miley Cyrus represent the latest branch of feminism, then surely the male-dominated power elite must be aroused with concern.

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

The way he looked at you? He wasn’t distracted. He was consumed.

I was talking to a friend about Santorum. He said, 'For all my years in the State Department, I know one thing. Terrorists, what they fear most is a guy in a sweater vest.'

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

Stop hoping, start believing.

I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.