The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.

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

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

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.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.