World change comes from within.

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.

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.

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

In the beginning was the sea, and the sea was the world

Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time.

What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.