In our age of nuclear and biological weapons and the ever more efficient exploitation of nature, the mix of high technology and an ethos of domination could take us to an evolutionary dead end.

In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.

We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

At the core of every child is an intact human.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

The theory of emptiness…is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own existence in it, and the way things actually are.

And in the eveningAfter the fire and the lightOne thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the lightTime is relentlessAnd as the past disappearsWe're on the verge of all things new

Yin and yang are the left and right hands of the Infinite — creator, destroyer, and reproducer of everything that exists.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.

I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.

Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.

No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations.