Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out.

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.