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.

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.

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.

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.

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.

one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.

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