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

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.

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

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.

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

Sacrifice begins with sharing.

If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.

Little deeds of kindness little words of love Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.

The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

Science is about filling in the details.

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.