Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.

learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.

If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.