Whatever you want to do,do it now.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

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.

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

If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens to our bodies, sexism can be reversed. It's the understanding that it's not inevitable. I think that is crucial.

If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.