Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

Because I loved myself, I was loved.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.

Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.