Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

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

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.