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 future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

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

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

It's obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of the women's movement in one person. Only a diverse group can symbolize a movement.