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.

We are all in the process of becoming.

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

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.

If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.