What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.

I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, "I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again," without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival.