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

We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing amazing things on the ground - but those people rarely get reported. Our media are so into conflict that they sometimes say to me, "Bring an 'anti' with you."

There's a wonderful cartoon of Reagan in a Western hat and he's saying, "A pregnant woman in every home, a gun in every holster. Make America a man again." That sums up his attitudes: pro-military, anti-equality, pro-rich, anti-poor.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.