Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

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.

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

In the natural equation (Natural Society) freedom, is but the only element of equality commonly shared by all species".

This road will be new because you will see a given emotion as a choice rather than a condition of life.

It is at night, not in the day, that stars shine the brightest.

I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.

TPP is dead anyway, and similar deals in the eurozone are going nowhere.

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

I have a whole fur closet. I'm not afraid of PETA.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.