Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

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.

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.