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.

I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

....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.

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep