It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it.

You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.

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

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

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing amazing things on the ground - but those people rarely get reported. Our media are so into conflict that they sometimes say to me, "Bring an 'anti' with you."