Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.

The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it ­ - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women are black.

Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.