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

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.

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.

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

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

I’d taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn’t a musical theater person at all.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.

Education doesn’t just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.