Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

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.

You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either passive or violent but instead act firmly and imaginatively to oppose oppression in its many guises. A wonderful tonic for activists and a treasure for those who teach, these stories bring women's history to life.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

People learn to lead because they care about something.

We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view.