We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.

Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.