Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and a superior party, one person is strong, the other weak, and that it is therefore natural for the powerful to rule over the powerless. To those who support patriarchal thinking, maintaining power and control is acceptable by whatever means.

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

..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo

To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.