The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism, Palestinian homelessness, rural development, ecology, the persecution of lesbians, and the exploitative practices of global corporations.

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.

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

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.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.