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

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.