In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.

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.

Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.