At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.