My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.

The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.