So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

I don't like debates anyway. I have never debated anyone, I think they're a very masculine form - like an intellectual prizefight. They let you know who the better debater is but they don't really tell you about the issue. It's all heat, but no light.

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.