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.

A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

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

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.