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

I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.

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.

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

[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.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).