“In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.”

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.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

I’m an actor who evolves once the shoot starts.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.

Self-love means to appreciate who you are, while being committed to your evolution.

Improving yourself is part of your growth and evolution.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.