What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

Behave like everything you do matters.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.