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Sisterhood is powerful.
Women are a colonized people.
We are the women men warned us about.
The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
We're not inherently anything but human.
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.
I am an artist and a political being as well.
Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.
There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.
Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers
Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.
Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.
The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.
... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.
raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.
Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.
What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.
Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that.
Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.
The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.
every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion