Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There are other words - there's "womanist," there's "mujerista," there's "women's liberationist" - all mean the same thing and they get the same ridicule. I think we just need to choose what word we feel comfortable with that says women are full human beings, and whatever that word is, it will get a lot of opposition. But it will also attract a lot of support. But this is a revolution, not a public relations movement.

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.