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

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.

Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.