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.

Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.

Whatever you want to do,do it now.

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.