The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

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 want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

...when you enter a room, my wound opens, but there is light, always light, when you come in...

Radical optimism is a wide screen view of the moment nay the inconceivable, as you please.

When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.

Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race.

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

Strong lives are those that are marked by a sense of purpose, connectedness, resilience, and fulfillment.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Contrast is the dramatist's method.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.