52 quotes
"Nobody at twenty-eight is a success or a failure. It's too early to figure out which way the tide's moving (Malkah, fifteen: THE SAME AS ME)
He, She and It (1991)
What is honor from a woman's point of view? Honor has been defined from a male point of view. What does it mean to choose not to endure having been raped?
She will walk in strength like a man and never sell her body and she will nurse her babies like a woman and live in love like a garden... (Chapter Seven, p133)
Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)
From the third grade on, women are trained to mistrust their natural bodies and to try to make them conform with body types belonging to two percent of the population.
Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft by Bill Moyers (1999)
"They perceive whatever they don't control as hostile." (Avram, twenty-five: WHERE THE ELITE MEET)
He, She and It (1991)
He's in Veecee Beecee, making those elaborate worlds people play at living in instead of worrying about the one we're all stuck with." (one: IN THE CORPORATE FORTRESS)
He, She and It (1991)
"I never wanted to belong to anybody. I only wanted to borrow them for a while, for the fun of it, the tenderness, some laughs." (Malkah, nine: REVISING THE FAMILY ALBUM)
He, She and It (1991)
"Those of your time who fought hard for change, often they had myths that a revolution was inevitable. But nothing is! All things interlock. We are only one possible future..." (p177)
Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)
I’ve always felt that in order to change things, you have to understand the forces and choices that created the PRESENT, therefore I write about times in the past that I find very relevant.
In their minds we're not human...They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us. (p255)
Gone to Soldiers (1987)
We all of us go about, she meant to tell him but was too occupied, wanting to be wanted but unsure why anybody should bother. (twenty-two: THE PRESENT)
He, She and It (1991)
"Some people go on wanting [sex] as long as they live, but other people, they let it go as if it were a garment that had worn out." (Malkah, nine: REVISING THE FAMILY ALBUM)
He, She and It (1991)