I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling.

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.