Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival.

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.