A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold, distant, difficult, cruel fathers who made them feel that there was no alternative or, at a minimum, who made them choose someone like their father in order to change in this other man what they couldn't change in their fathers.

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

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.