In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

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

Women are a colonized people.

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.

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

people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.