“I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about.”

Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.

It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most.

Movements of people create change – not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer.

One thing I’ve learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.

We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce… and yet we’re still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor.

When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture.

So many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we’ve got a lot of work to do.

And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I’ve always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.

And we live longer. Our stuff is not “special interest” stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.

If we figure out the supports and infrastructure to make all of that possible – and it is completely within reach.

I’ve always believed it’s important to make the invisible visible.

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

An economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.

Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care.

It really moved the dial politically. That’s what is needed in the women’s movement – a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.

If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they’ll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

A big issue for Muslims is when Christian evangelizing – telling people about the faith – becomes proselytizing, actively trying to convert.

I’m conservative on some issues, and I’m progressive on others.

On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you’re on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don’t resolve your issues it literally could mean – and this would be an extreme circumstance – the sinking of the ship.

Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.

People don’t talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain.

Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.