Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.

Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.