When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if they're painters, you don't necessarily see them, or if they're actors, you see the role they're playing. In political life, you see women of enormous courage and smarts and humor, and that releases the talent, especially in little girls who are watching.

I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.

I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.