I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives.

I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.