Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

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.

You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions