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.

Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.

The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.