It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

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

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

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.

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

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.