“No behaviour on our part is more self-centered than the demand to speak and the refusal to listen.”

“Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.I self-center you more than ever.”

“The part that needs healing is our personal life. Personal life has nothing to do with work. Besides, what better way of healing than to find our center of self-sovereignty? Isn't that the whole point of healing?”

“Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity: it is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.”

“You'll learn far more by listening than you ever will by speaking.”

“Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.”