We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system.

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.

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.

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.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us to get at meaning we can't get to through the front door.

Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

I think meaning is something that's really unnecessary in music, at least for me.

Youth is a question of energy.