Heather's quotes

I can't be sexy and be a mother all at the same time...unless I can find a guy who thinks that baby food in my hair and nursing bras are sexy.

Can you imagine growing up in a world where Wonder Woman's day job was being a fashion designer and a "supermom"?

In the Old Left, they used to say that the workers don't know they're oppressed, so we have to raise their consciousness. One night at a meeting I said, 'Would everybody please give me an example from their own life on how they experienced oppression as a woman? I need to hear it to raise my own consciousness.' Kathie was sitting behind me and the words rang in her mind. From then on she sort of made it an institution and called it consciousness-raising.

I can do no great things, only small things with great love.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

It's funny: [in hearing women's stories] you see the monster, and it's worse than you ever expected, but you also see the people who've battled the monster, and they make you less afraid of it.

I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

If you were on a sinking ship and yelled, "Women and children first!" how much feminist opposition do you think you'd get? . . . Women want to fight men for equal pay, but how often do they fight a man for the check? . . . And any man who questions a woman's physical capabilities gets branded a sexist -- but who do they call when there's a spider to be killed? Convenient feminism -- crackpot theory or dangerous lunacy?

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.