I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.

It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.