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

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.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

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

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

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