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.

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

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