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

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.

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

What we resist persists.

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.