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

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

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?

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.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

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

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.