Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.