Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.

Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Are you in the habit of taking tea with anyone who approaches you in a foreign port?” He went on and snorted carelessly. “No wonder you were abducted so easily.

Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.

I would so rock at running amuck.

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

It is better to dream big and get half of it, then dream small and get all of it.

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.

I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.