To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist.

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it beforewhy do we think we can succeed now?