It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.