"How come you took so long to get together and start fighting for what was yours? It's running easy to know smart looking backward, but it seems as i… - Marge Piercy

"...No one can stop children in love unless by exile. But you'll never grow up if you don't let go of each other." (Malkah, six: WE KNOW TOO MUCH AND TOO LITTLE)

A tendency to believe quite literally in the rhetoric of Movement males is a form of naiveté that no woman can afford.

Unlike some separatists I don't view men as biologically impaired. I believe sexism is culturally conditioned and that if you change the culture, you will change the kind of behavior which people with the various sorts of genitalia will consider appropriate. What I hate in men is what I consider ugly, brutal, violent, mean behavior - behavior damaging to women, to men they consider inferior, to children, to other living creatures with whom we share our biosphere.