Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.

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'.

There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.

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.