“Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.”

Imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children, parasites.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.

I don’t like writing. I like having written.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.

There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.

Force is a dangerous weapon.