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

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.

The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all.

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history

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.

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

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.