There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.