We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.

It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.