The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.

The ends and means are a seamless web.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, "Do you believe in God?" I do say, "No. I believe in people."

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.