She is a water bug on the surface of life.

Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.

They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have those qualities because they're perceived as feminine. Until men are raised with those qualities, too, they won't have the full circle of human qualities.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

There's a wonderful cartoon of Reagan in a Western hat and he's saying, "A pregnant woman in every home, a gun in every holster. Make America a man again." That sums up his attitudes: pro-military, anti-equality, pro-rich, anti-poor.

... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.