Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.

The ends and means are a seamless web.

Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.