If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.

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

During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.

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

No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.

More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.

I can't mate in captivity.