I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.

Don't agonize, organize.

The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.

Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.

It doesn't have to be perfect...as long as you're happy with it.

Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.