A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.