Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always at war with one another, then we must be willing to acknowledge the appropriateness of complex critical responses to writing by men even if it is sexist. Clearly women can learn from writers whose work is sexist, even be inspired by it, because sexism may be simply one dimension of that work. Concurrently fiercely critiquing the sexism does not mean that one does not value the work.

We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

feminism is for everybody