the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.

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.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.