The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

It's obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of the women's movement in one person. Only a diverse group can symbolize a movement.

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

I can't mate in captivity.

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.