Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle at all, to just accept and call that acceptance is inevitable

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever—only, nothing is eternal.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.

Once we recognize what we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices.

I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own.

Change did not begin with you, and it will not end with you, but what you do with your life is an absolutely vital piece of that chain.

Our visions bein with our desires.

The true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.