“[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.”

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Inner space is the real frontier.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.