For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

It's obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of the women's movement in one person. Only a diverse group can symbolize a movement.

imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.