We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.
I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
It’s especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you’re so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.
You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.
One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.
I think we acquire habits of mind when we’re little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.
I think I’ve wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not separate from other people’s lives or from the universe. I think our moments of happiness really come from a feeling of unity.
I would put all the efforts to humanize the “masculine” and “feminine” gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come.
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.
I’m not sure that it’s up to me to sum up what I’ve done with it in the past. I’m not sure there’s a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.
Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it’s amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.
When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.
Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.
I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a feminist, I was beautiful. So, many people were really commenting on what they thought feminists looked like.
No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you’re working your ass off, then you don’t want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.
Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women’s equality is also men’s survival.
You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who’s younger than you, who weighs less than you.
The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.
The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.
Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.