I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

The problem is, for men and women, the idea that sexuality is about dominance and submission, when, in fact, cooperation is a lot more fun, to put it my way. So some of it, a lot of it, is just about empathy.

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.

It's obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of the women's movement in one person. Only a diverse group can symbolize a movement.