“One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.”

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

Patriarchy has no gender.

A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.

Living simply makes loving simple.

Feminism is for everybody.

Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

The character of our country is on the ballot.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.