Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

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

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.

All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women... All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey.

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?