The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she's prepared to be.

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.

...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are real and they must be destroyed.