“Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art.”

“Women should lobby, demonstrate, march….They should whistle at men in the streets, raid beauty parlors, picket toy manufacturers who produce sexist toys, convert in sizeable numbers to militant lesbianism, provide feminist divorce counselling, establish make-up withdrawal centers, adopt their mothers’ family names…”

“What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.”

“People must…wake up to the profound misogyny expressed on all levels of human interchange, not just in laws but in the detail of everyday life: in forms of politeness and in the conventions (clothes, gestures, etc.) which polarize sexual identity, and in the flow of images (in art, news, and advertizing) which perpetuate sexist stereotypes.”

“Loving = the sensation of being in an intense form. Like pure oxygen (as distinct from air)”

“It is hard to measure the increasing acceptance of brutality in American life, but its evidence is everywhere… Violent crime is down, yet the easy delight taken in violence seems to have grown…. America has become a country in which the fantasies and the practice of violence are seen as good entertainment, fun.”

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”

“The only interesting answers are those which destroy the question.”