There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

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.

Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change. Revolutions that last don't happen from the top down. They happen from the bottom up.

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

Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.