To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

You are not going to destroy this imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it.

People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.

... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.