If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. Feminism has to do with everything in the world, a vision of how the world can be. I have great doubts about Utopias, but I just keep on thinking there is a better way to live than the way we live now.

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

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.