Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

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

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

I believe that art has incredible power.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.