“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.”

“The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.”

“Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.”

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”

“Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.”

“Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.”

“Suddenly, it seems ridiculous that we just came from a city airport named for Columbus, a terrible navigator who insisted to his dying day that he was in India—which is why people here are called Indians. As the Native women in Houston said, “It could have been worse—he could have thought he was in Turkey.” 

“White people should have sued for being culturally deprived in a white ghetto. When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.” 

“There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory.” 

“I was being measured against the expectation that any feminist had to be unattractive in a conventional sense—and then described in contrast to that stereotype. The subtext was: If you could get a man, why would you need equal pay?” 

“Depression is rage spread thin.”

“Rhyming in itself is magic.” 

“All movements need a few people who can’t be fired.” 

“Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.” 

“After all, hope is a form of planning. If our hopes weren’t already real within us, we couldn’t even hope them.” 

“Laughter is the only free emotion-the only one that can't be compelled.p.181” 

“Consciousness is a born hermit.”

“All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible”

“The man who is not permitted to own is owned.”

“If I could, I would leave an open space for your story on every page.” 

“When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.” 

“I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both.” 

“The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look, instead of by our heads and hearts.” 

“Home is a symbol of the self. Caring for a home is caring for one’s self.”