Liberation does not come from outside.

Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.