what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

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.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

those who despair of life are not long for it.