“Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.”

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.

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.

I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy.

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

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.

I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

Since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.