Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

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

What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it.

The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.

Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.