Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.