The ends and means are a seamless web.

The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is a man there doing half of it, that's a different world.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

God knows (She knows) that women try.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.