Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.

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.

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families who qualified for assistance received nothing.

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?

Oftentimes what we do to minimize a problem maximizes it! Embrace truth helps us to let go!

I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.

You can do anything you want to do.

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

I'm a different hitter than Chipper Jones. He goes up looking for certain pitches to hit. I go up there looking for something over the plate and try to hit it hard.

My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.

No matter what we've done or where we've been, every single one of us can change.