The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

Women are becoming the men we wanted to marry. (But too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry)

In most societies, a woman is encouraged to give birth to another person more than she is encouraged to give birth to herself.

There are black doctors and doctors and women novelists and novelists. Any less powerful group gets the adjective, while the powerful group takes the noun. The less powerful group usually knows the more powerful one much better than vice versa. People of color have to understand white people in order to survive; women have had to know men. Only the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.

To transform inequality in the outside world, we have to start inside the home. We have to get rid of the old idea that what happens to men is political, and therefore subject to change, but what happens to women is cultural, and therefore can’t, or shouldn’t, be changed.

For women, the only alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist.

You can travel without traveling, and you can not travel -- yet travel. Being on the road is a state of mind.

Your daughters are watching you.

So many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers.

Beware of any motto that glorifies the past. It’s code for restoring hierarchy. For example: “Make America great again.

Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk.

To write is to bring an inner voice into the outer world, to believe that our thoughts are worth entering the thinking of others, and to make real what has never existed in quite the same way before. What could be a better path to self-value than that?

There is no virtue in being on the same page if it's the wrong page.

A quote is the essence of a story. We all need stories to convey ideas, justice, anger, humanity, hope, laughter, learning, and whatever makes us understand or feel understood

Whatever you want to do, just do it. Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

The best thing about self-defense is knowing there is a self worth defending.

We are linked, not ranked.

When I'm traveling, I'm often confronted by a middle-aged white man who says something like "A black woman took my job." My answer is always "Who said it was your job?" The problem is his sense of entitlement.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, and you think it's a pig, it's a pig.

Prostitution isn’t the oldest profession, it’s the oldest oppression.

Feminism... (is) not about one woman getting a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Not one study has proved that women talk more than men, but numerous studies indicate that men talk more than women. Women are thought to be more talkative than men because they are being measured against the expectation of female silence.

We are the women our parents warned us about - and we are proud!

What our bodies can do is way more important than how they look. Sports help young women realize that our bodies are instruments, not ornaments.

Many are looking for the right person. Too few are trying to be the right person.

God may be in the details, but the Goddess is in the connections.

The media are not reality; reality is reality.

Women are always saying, "We can do anything that men can do." But men are not saying, "We can do anything that women can do.

Men can be just as loving and nurturing as women-- it's a libel on men to say they can't-- but we all learn by example. Boys just need nurturing men in their lives so they know it's okay for them to be nurturing.

The voting booth is the one place on Earth where the least powerful and the most powerful are equal.