When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.

Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle.

I have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn't justified in some countries.

The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.

But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

Sometimes you need coffee, and sometimes you need a Bloody Mary.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

The only true phenom...is me.

Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with.