For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They have stood in place so long that they are afraid to move. They fear change. They fear losing what little they have.

To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.

feminism is for everybody

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.