It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses.

A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never happen again and could never have happened before. We aren't blank slates, but we are also communal creatures who are born before our brains are fully developed, so we're very sensitive to our environment. The question is: How to find the support and the circumstances that allow you to express what's inside you?

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

Most women are one man away from welfare.