“Adalah revolusionar bagi perempuan untuk menyanyikan kepedihan, tapi lebih lagi bila ia menyanyikan seluruh lagu kehidupan”

“Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That's careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted... But I recognize the fact that we have this ridiculous system of tenure, that the whole thrust of academia is one that values education, in my opinion, in inverse ratio to its usefulness—and what you write in inverse relationship to its understandability. [...] Academics are forced to write in language no one can understand so that they get tenure. They have to say 'discourse', not 'talk'. Knowledge that is not accessible is not helpful.”

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”

“A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.”

“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”

“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”

“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”