A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

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

Sisterhood is powerful.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

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