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.

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn't have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.

What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?

Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

Writing is always harder than talking.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.