Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
Oppression has no logic – just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
The phenomenon of the woman who’s asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, “I don’t know. What do you want to see?” It’s a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, “This is what I want.”
Karla Jay’s intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.
I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.
All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don’t want to be anyone’s mirror.
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.
Male silence is not the same as listening.
It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
She is a water bug on the surface of life.
Writers – we’re a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.
Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.
Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.
We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
Self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it.
How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group’s greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.
I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.