We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.