What the women do is become caretakers for the men. In those circumstances, I decided, and many others have, that there's a reality called women's space. There has to be a separate space for women.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.

I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.