“Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.”

“We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.”

“I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.”

“Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.”

“We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.”

“Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.”

“Girl next to me at the baggage counter said she wrote her way to liberation. How did you handle first person narrative, I asked her. And said she knew the hole of depression, had been there. But I am out now, I escaped, I told her. 'You will fall into it again,' she said. Already I was sliding.”

“Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.”