Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
When you attempt something new, there’s always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are “follow the fear” or “fear is a sign of growth.”
If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.
We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men than women, and not more in humans than in nature. To believe otherwise is only an excuse for dominating women and nature.
Religion is often politics made sacred.
Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.
I always say to audiences of men: “Cooperation beats submission. Trust me.”
The original languages didn’t even have he and she. They didn’t have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.
I always thought that “humanist” was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.
Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say “I dream of being a prostitute.” It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion is more traumatic than even getting beaten up. In certain circumstances, obviously, it may be a way to survive.
A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don’t wait for someone else. You do it yourself.
Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they’re disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.
I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.
I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.
There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.
I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don’t know what might be possible.
Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn’t be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. I wasn’t as close to her then as I nowadays, in retrospect, wish I had been.
I just think that culturally, women – we’re all human beings – but at least we don’t have our masculinity to prove.
It’s a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.
It’s the biggest economic influence in a woman’s life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.