The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

All men are rapists and that's all they are

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her heavy head.

First I lost my heart. Then I lost my mind.

[W]hat should I have done? Gather dirt in my purse?

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.

If I had, say, a tall, amateur male lead living on the campus of a rural college (Six Years), the next book might feature a short, cop who lives in the heart of Manhattan (Missing You).

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

I always preferred having wings to having things.

When I was a kid, the bigger boys would pick on me. So I got an idea that I would make alliances with older boys, like just one or two, who would be my protectors.

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House