“There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory.” 

“I was being measured against the expectation that any feminist had to be unattractive in a conventional sense—and then described in contrast to that stereotype. The subtext was: If you could get a man, why would you need equal pay?” 

“Depression is rage spread thin.”

“Rhyming in itself is magic.” 

“All movements need a few people who can’t be fired.” 

“Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.” 

“After all, hope is a form of planning. If our hopes weren’t already real within us, we couldn’t even hope them.” 

“Laughter is the only free emotion-the only one that can't be compelled.p.181” 

“Consciousness is a born hermit.”

“All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible”

“The man who is not permitted to own is owned.”

“If I could, I would leave an open space for your story on every page.” 

“When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.” 

“I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both.” 

“The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look, instead of by our heads and hearts.” 

“Home is a symbol of the self. Caring for a home is caring for one’s self.” 

“punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group.” 

“There is no such thing as a perfect leader. We have to learn to lead ourselves.” 

“Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.” 

“I’m not sure we can understand another country if we don’t understand our own.” 

“The earth has its music for those who will listen.”

“That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.”

“The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the faultless ideal which the reality misses and suggests.”

“why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.”