What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

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

I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.