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.

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

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.

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

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.

As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.