If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.