Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

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

We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.

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.

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

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.

What we resist persists.