learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.

Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

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