When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.

In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.

We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

At the core of every child is an intact human.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good.

Anything plus management amounts to success

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

If you unpack the statistics on who is supporting , Donald Trump, it means that there is a lot of people who hold very bigoted racist ideas and there is a lot of them.

I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.

I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.