in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

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

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rudeAnd fled to the silence of sweet solitude.

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.