To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.

When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.