Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

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.

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

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.