Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.

What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.