If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!