There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.