A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

There has been only one war fought literally worldwide, affecting every living thing, and that has been men's all-out, non-stop, millennia-long war against women, a war that not only continues to this moment without the slightest abatement but intensifies hourly.

In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness... that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.