Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible, and there were still laws on the books that made it alright for men to beat their wives, as long as it was within certain limits, and women were chattel.

We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing amazing things on the ground - but those people rarely get reported. Our media are so into conflict that they sometimes say to me, "Bring an 'anti' with you."

Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.