Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

It is no longer enough to point out what we don't like, we have to work out 'What sort of society do we want?

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

the so-called women's question is a whole-people question.

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

The Holy Scripture is the truth of God.

When you smile, you bloom.

Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.

He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.

I'm Taylor, I'm 11 and I want a record deal.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.