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.

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

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?

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.

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

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.