The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

We teach what we need to learn.

You are the leader you've been waiting for.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. I wasn't as close to her then as I nowadays, in retrospect, wish I had been.