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

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.