Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

The end of exile is the end of being.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.