There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.