A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

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

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

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.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.