I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

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.

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.

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.

cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.