People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community.

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.