Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. |
Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy |
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it |
She has become the Julia Child of sex. |
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. |
Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. |
That is almost impossible to do -- to prove that a pregnancy would literally cause you to lose your life. |
The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. |
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. |
The definition of woman's work is shitwork |
The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government. |
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn |
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. |
The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. |
The surest way to be alone is to get married |