The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.

We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.