The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women.

Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.

The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

learning must travel the distance from head to heart.