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 a colonized people.

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.