"Know in your heart that you are invincible and wear your warrior-self like a second skin.  The power you have is one of power-with, not power-over.  We know that you seek to wield your power harmoniously and not hold it above others like a weapon.  Some are just not ready to see or accept this.  Your true weapons are your wisdom and self-confidence. And your strength is in your willingness to learn and grow."  - Trish

"Disagreement is a given.  Resolution is the work." - Mari Susan

"I have always been a brazen hussy.
In my childhood I was punished,
In my adulthood I was beaten.
Now I am in my Womynhood, 
and accept neither punishment nor brutality."
- Elizabeth

"Anything or anyone else is just flotsam on the bay of life. Allow that to just float by you."  - Mari Susan

"Clearly, these people need swords... I offer mine, held high and shining, to whatever womyn who wants/needs/sees it. I, too, was a slave, but my master was more genial than these... I carried his initials in my heart, but never in my skin. And even that was so long ago, I have nearly forgotten his name."  - Wanda

"At  times, There is no difference between everything and nothing.  If you try to do everything.., there is nothing that can be done.  If you do nothing, then the possibility of everything remains."  - Elizabeth

"Sometimes my nerve gets ahead of all my other parts."  - Sallie

"Any woman who doesn't identify with feminist thought might spend about 15 years working with battered women for access to the systems that are supposed to serve them.  There is no better place to realize that men and male systems are oppressing women and that they will fight to retain every inch of power they have, even to abuse their own children.  I have so much admiration for the women who have continued to work in this field over the years without giving up.  If I hadn't quit it, I'd probably have had to start a revolution by now, and belong to an underground railroad for women and children because I couldn't ever truthfully advocate that a woman use the system first to protect her children. This is one reason that the entire concept of welfare reform is so infuriating:  because men who make laws called for poor women to accept "personal responsibility" when men-as-a-group have refused to accept responsibility for their abuse of women and are trying to undermine the programs women started to help other women."  -Lynda

"Seems we conceal the contributions of the women beneath the deficiencies of the men."  - Elizabeth

"I believe, in Towanda, there shall be printing presses and rocks from many places and time to grow into the great doing loves of life which shall then decorate our spaces." - Elizabeth
 

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