Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.