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.

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.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.