when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54," then it's another story.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

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

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Most women are one man away from welfare.