We are linked and not ranked. Ever butty is equal, everyone is the same.

Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.

The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo.

[T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged.

World change comes from within.

Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.

Thoughtful, energetic, smart, determined. I tried to own and further those qualities and often mustered them up when they were dormant and something wasn't going my way.

I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.

Whether we know it or not, our lives are acts of imagination and the world is continually re-imagined through us.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

This time [2016] is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.

Being a parent and having two young kids, I buy Blu-rays and DVDs all the time. It's like buying a toy.

When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.