Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

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

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.