Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

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.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

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