If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.