Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way.