There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer."