... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty, sixty, or seventy--all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics--many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'