You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible, and there were still laws on the books that made it alright for men to beat their wives, as long as it was within certain limits, and women were chattel.