Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

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

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.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.