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

you never know which thing you do is going to turn out to be important. I'm sure we've all done very small things that had very great impact and very big things that didn't make any difference. So, create the means that best reflect the ends we want. Try to make each moment authentic, and you'll get to an authentic end.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.