How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.

There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.