Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn't perfect yet. We don't all have that. But we're trying.

It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.