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

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

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.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

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

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.