Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.

The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of men, too - certainly for most women - there's enough real conflict without manufacturing it. The media formula is always to have a pro and con, to say there are two sides to any issue, when in fact there may be ten sides.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

I can't mate in captivity.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.