Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.

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

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.

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

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.

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.