“As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.” 

“Or perhaps it's "activist," but on environmental and economic problems, without understanding that pressuring women to have too many children is the biggest cause of environmental distress, and economic courses should start with reproduction, not just production.” 

“Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.” 

“My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.” 

“Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger - and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women.” 

“Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.” 

“When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.” 

“Feminism is memory.” 

I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.

“I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...}

“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.” 

“As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.” 

“Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.” 

“Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.” 

“You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79” 

“I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed. My mother paid a high price for caring so much, yet being able to do so little about it. In this way, she led me toward am activist place where she herself could never go.” 

“We are becoming the men we wanted to marry” 

“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.” 

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

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

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

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” 

“Swiftboating enters the English language as a verb that means attacking strength instead of weakness. In feminist and other social justice contexts, this has long been called trashing, attacking leaders for daring to write, speak, or lead at all. Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad. p.189” 

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.