Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will.

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.

We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact, we live ina homosexual society because all credible transactions of power, authority, and authenticity take place among men; all transactions based on equity and individuality take place among men. Men are real; therefore, all real relationship is between men; all real communication is between men; all real reciprocity is between men; all real mutuality is between men.

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power