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.

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

Power is the ability not to have to please.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.

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.

We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.