“It really is something ... that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn't it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping and ...”

“When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know how they managed to make this law in their favour, or who exactly it was who gave them...”

“[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it prod...”

“Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of living flesh....”

“This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we...”

“[I]t was with a good end in mind that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire fo...”

“I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft ...”

“Come on, its an American tradition. Apple soup? Moms homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'Its apple pie and Moms homemade chicken soup. But you didnt do badly, for...”

“[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.”

“Yes, Latinos dream more. When you live in poverty, when your president is imposed upon you, when they kill someone and no one gets indicted, and when only a few get rich, of course you dream more. ...”

“It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.”

“I look at Kitty, who's braiding Chris's hair in microbraids. She's being extra quiet so we forget she's here and don't kick her out. 'I think that as long as you're ready and it's what you want to ...”

“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body and flee earth with its constan...”

“... the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with sp...”

“I'm a queen with or without a king. Chasing anything is beneath me. Until you're ready to put away childish things and be my man, my king, someone I can trust to shepard my soul to the Almighty I h...”