The price of clinging to the enemy [a man] is your life. To enter into a relationship with a man who has divested himself as completely and publicly from the male role as much as possible would still be a risk. But to relate to a man who has done any less is suicide.... I, personally, have taken the position that I will not appear with any man publicly, where it could possibly be interpreted that we were friends.

Sisterhood is powerful. It kills. Mostly sisters.

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

I'm enormously less interested in whom you sleep with than I am in with whom you're prepared to die.

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.