We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.