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

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.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

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.

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

The source of motivation should be in the vision, not position.

No one answer is ever the answer.

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.