We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

... 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.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.