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

I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

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

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

We teach what we need to learn.