It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

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

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

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.