There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change. Revolutions that last don't happen from the top down. They happen from the bottom up.

The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.