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

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.

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

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

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

How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.