Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..." They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

We teach what we need to learn.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.