People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.