In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten out of hand over the last hundred years, it happened when men were purposeless, when they didn't actually have a legitimate reason to be moving the species forward because the machines were doing all the hard work.

I'm generalizing, but women, being so connected to life, tend to have stronger intuition is stronger because they are trained to be on the look-out and protect. Men do that too, but there's a different quality to women.

Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.

Men at an earlier age, get the feminine aspects of them wrung out in a variety of ways.

What may be on the surface looks like one thing but it's often a much larger problem.