To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

And I had to get out of hating range.