“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”

“This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. 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.”

“We are becoming the men we wanted to marry”

“we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud”

“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.”

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.”

“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”