Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

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

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.