“In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.”

Since politics – until recently – has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.

Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.

The most important thing of all, the thing that lasted, was the first feminist movement and the position of women in society. That completely changed and that was very, very important.

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class (which is wealthy by world standards) customarily employed its own women as domestic servants.

But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women’s art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I’m resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women’s liberation… none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

Feminists have not tried to “destroy the family”. We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.