Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

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.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

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.

The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."