It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

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.

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.