Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.