We are all in the process of becoming.

Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

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

To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.

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

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.

I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.