What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

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.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.