There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

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

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.

Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.