Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment.

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

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.

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.