Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

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.