Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?

The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.