I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

Behave like everything you do matters.

Writing is always harder than talking.

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

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night