We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

There should be no censorship of mail.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91)

Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

Now I've heard the phrase 'there's no such thing as an ugly baby' but that is an ugly baby!

I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.