If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects it will also affect them. On theother hand, members of less powerful groups are raised to believe (however illogically) that each individual can escape the group's fate. Thus, cohesion is encouraged on the one hand, and disunity is fostered on the other.