What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

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.

No soul has the power to redeem. You can only tell others about the Redeemer.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

To be wrecked begins with an experience that pulls you out of your comfort zone and self-centeredness, whether you want it or not.

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

If you laid every economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.

You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.

Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Coincidence is logical.

I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.

First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.