I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come.