But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.

The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.