raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

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

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Exploration is the sport of the scientist

I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.

If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

The media is the great middleman. Trump doesn't need a middleman to get his message out. Trump's crowds are five blocks long.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.