Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

I am worried that Americans I have met on my journey across the country, seem very hopeless and are feeling powerless to make change and are feeling passive. I'm not blaming them. But one thing we need at a time like this is for people to feel empowered and angry.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.