Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

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.

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.

A good artist must be good at many things.

Spackle!” Manchee barks, tho he’s too chicken to attack now that I’ve held back. “Spackle! Spackle! Spackle!”“Shut up, Manchee, ” I say.“Spack

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

Here's why I like geek culture: People like what they like because they like it. They're not trying to fit into any mainstream likes or dislikes.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

Love is fearless in the midst of the sea of fear.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.