The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don't think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.