My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

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

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

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

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.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.