In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness... that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

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

One of the basic tenets of radical feminism is that any woman in the world has more in common with any other woman regardless of class, race, age, ethnic group, nationality - than any woman has with any man.

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