What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing...

Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty of the consumers.

Gray hair is the glory of a long life.

There is no word equivalent to 'cuckold' for women.

How is there going to be Peace when there is no Justice?

If your friends never make you uncomfortable. You don't have friends. You have fans.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.