If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

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.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.