This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.

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

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

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

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.