Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.

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

Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.