Normal Is Absolutely My Least Favorite Word.

Women, I Believe, Search For Fellow Beings Who Have Faced Similar Struggles, Conveyed Them In Ways A Reader Can Transform Into Her Own Life, Confirmed Desires The Reader Had Hardly Acknowledge-desires That Now Seem Possible. Women Catch Courage From The Women Whose Lives And Writings They Read, And Women Call The Bearer Of That Courage Friend. [p. 138]

Thinking About Profound Social Change, Conservatives Always Expect Disaster, While Revolutionaries Confidently Anticipate Utopia. Both Are Wrong.

Most Full Lives Are Filled With Empty Gestures.

Power Is The Ability To Take One's Place In Whatever Discourse Is Essential To Action And The Right To Have One's Part Matter.

We Women Have Lived Too Much With Closure: "if He Notices Me, If I Marry Him, If I Get Into College, If I Get This Work Accepted, If I Get This Job" -- There Always Seems To Loom The Possibility Of Something Being Over, Settled, Sweeping Clear The Way For Contentment. This Is The Delusion Of A Passive Life. When The Hope For Closure Is Abandoned, When There Is An End To Fantasy, Adventure For Women Will Begin.