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If you have contempt for people and think they cannot know what they want and need, who the hell is the revolution for?

— Marge Piercy The Grand Coolie Damn (1969)

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Doorways are sacred to women for we
are the doorways of life and we must choose
what comes in and what goes out.

fragment of poem in Moon Is Always Female (1980)

Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen:
reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.

Each good novel has a vision of its world that informs what is put in and what is left out.

Life of Prose and Poetry — An Inspiring Combination (1999)

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

Dance the Eagle to Sleep (1973)

The Movement is supposed to be for human liberation: how come the condition of women inside it is no better than outside?

The Grand Coolie Damn (1969)

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

Huey P. Newton Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

Joseph de Maistre Considerations on France (1796)

We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk.

Nina Simone

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

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