Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.

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

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).