There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

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

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

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

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Progress is discovering what you can do without.

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

Free yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free.

Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.

Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has gathered us to his heart.

If you stand for something, you will always find some people for you and some people against you. If you stand for nothing, you will find nobody against you, and nobody for you.