In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.

imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold, distant, difficult, cruel fathers who made them feel that there was no alternative or, at a minimum, who made them choose someone like their father in order to change in this other man what they couldn't change in their fathers.