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

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.

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

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

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.

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

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