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

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.

The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.

Women are a colonized people.

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.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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.