The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.

Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older people boring or slow. Older people have a right to resist being rushed, to stand and stare at the fragile world that has become so unspeakably dear to them. For the lucky ones, who will not have to leave while they are still in love with life, there will come a later time when that passion too will fade, but while one is still possessed by that great tenderness, it must be yielded to.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.