You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.