I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life); to the strength and power that emerges from sustained resistance and the profound conviction that these forces can be healing, can protect us from dehumanization and despair.

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.

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

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

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

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.