I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.

men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.