Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.

Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.

It's insane that there are actually people listening to my music all over the world, which is amazing.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

You get a little stir crazy during the week.

From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.