We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or it will survive as a corporate 'greenwash'. Anyone who's a sincere environmentalist can't stand that role.

Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.

That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

It’s not that Monsanto is making money out of the blue. It’s making money by coercing and literally forcing people to pay for what was free. Take water, for instance. Water has always been free. We’ve never paid for drinking water. The World Bank says the reason water has been misused is because it was never commercially priced. But the reason it’s been misused is because it was wasted by the big users—industry, which polluted it.

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.