The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

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.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Imagination is a glorious wonder.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

I think the most fun I ever had was playing King Arthur in Spamalot on the West End.

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.

You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.