As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.