54 quotes
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
Moving Beyond Words (1994)
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
Moving Beyond Words (1994)
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)
However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four.
We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen, or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.
As the little boy said when asked if he wanted to be a lawyer like his mother, "Oh no, that's women's work." Logic has nothing to do with oppression.
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)
When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.
My Life on The Road (2015)
Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least.
My Life on The Road (2015)
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
Building a Life of Value : Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us (2005)
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
Moving Beyond Words (1994)
A man can be called assertive if he launches World War Three. A woman can be called assertive if she puts you on hold.
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution.
Pornography is about dominance and often pain. Erotica is about mutuality and always pleasure.
Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what the dictionary says "feminism" means, is enough to make a revolution in itself.
Moving Beyond Words (1994)
Blatant or subtle, pornography involves no equal power or mutuality. In fact, much of the tension and drama comes from the clear idea that one person is dominating the other.
Erotica is as different from pornography as love is from rape, as dignity is from humiliation, as partnership is from slavery, as pleasure is from pain.
I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.
The Humanist interview (2012)
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and the courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.