The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against not only safe and legal abortions but contraception and even sex education.
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women’s bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
Most women’s magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
You have no choice but to live in the present, if you’re really being open to events and people as they come along.
Most women are one man away from welfare.
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.