Michelene Wandor Quotes & Sayings

I have decided to give up heterosexuality. I have decided that, while the project of altering the balance of power within heterosexual relationships is still a valid one, it is no longer one I can espouse
so to speak. There is no revolutionary hope for the heterosexual, and I have therefore decided to love myself and become a lesbian. — Michelene Wandor

No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action. — Michelene Wandor

The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change. — Michelene Wandor

Stupid word, that. Period. In America it means 'full stop,' like in punctuation. That's stupid as well. A period isn't a full stop. It's a new beginning. I don't mean all that creativity, life-giving force, earth-mother stuff, I mean it's a new beginning to the month, relief that you're not pregnant, when you don't have to have a child. — Michelene Wandor