Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

I don't like debates anyway. I have never debated anyone, I think they're a very masculine form - like an intellectual prizefight. They let you know who the better debater is but they don't really tell you about the issue. It's all heat, but no light.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.