Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Sisterhood is powerful.

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.

Some managers hire people they're excited to work with. I prefer to hire people I'm excited to dominate.

Miracles are not for matured men, they are for children or for unbelievers.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

Whoever is not able to sacrifice, has no talent for love.

The magic formula is there is no magic formula.

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.