In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

Misogyny runs deeper than religion.

When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

Physical training is mental warfare!

Attempting the impossibility with a possibility God breaks the impossibility barriers.

love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.

Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

Young people aren't the leaders of tomorrow. They are the leaders of today and tomorrow.

To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.