One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

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.

Don’t be shaken by the circumstance.

She gritted her teeth. "You can't just... get into my bed like this." A ghost of a smile played across his face. "I already have, " he murmured.

I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you.

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin to assassinate my character, thats impossible. You talkin about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.