Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54," then it's another story.

Women are only half responsible for children. Men raise children as much as women do. Until men are as nurturing as women are, and until women are as active outside the home as men are, we won't have democratic families, and therefore we won't have democracy, and we will continue this hierarchical notion of life.