What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.

Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.

In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

You are the one that you are looking for.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

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.