Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.

To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.