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

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.

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

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.

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.

Nobody wants to tell a truth which harms himself.

Something about him feels like forever…

Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit.

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.

He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.