Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.