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

... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty, sixty, or seventy--all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics--many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.

If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.

God knows (She knows) that women try.

You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.