It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.

While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.

Theory can blind observation.

I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.