Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

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.

If it was my lot that I should have him for only a little while, then have him I would.

I gain with loss. I grow with hurt

Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

What are emotions exactly?' Lutta asked. 'Silly feelings that get in the way of actions.

There were moments where people took the to streets and small rebellions, but ultimately it's a change in consciousness - so how do you capture that and bring the piece to light?

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.