One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.