Differences don’t just threaten and divide us. They also inform, enrich, and enliven us.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

What initially attracts us and what later becomes 'the problem' are usually one and the same.

There are some things for which there is no apology, and on the question of slavery, there is no adequate apology for ripping people out of their homeland and bringing them here in chains. There is no adequate apology for the ongoing horrific legacy of racism.

The first world we find ourselves in is a family that is not of our choosing.

Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie").

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.