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

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?

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.

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

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