Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.

the so-called women's question is a whole-people question.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is one of the means through which they conserve their supremacy.

It is no longer enough to point out what we don't like, we have to work out 'What sort of society do we want?

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.