I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

Don't agonize, organize.

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.

Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.