you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

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

When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you...then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.

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?

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?