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.

I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if they're painters, you don't necessarily see them, or if they're actors, you see the role they're playing. In political life, you see women of enormous courage and smarts and humor, and that releases the talent, especially in little girls who are watching.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.