I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.

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

Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.

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

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

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.