If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

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.

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.