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.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.

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.