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.

... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.

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

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.