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.

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.