Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.
Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.
We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
Self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it.
How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group’s greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.
I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.
You do have all five sense when you’re in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.
How can I combine career and family?
Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.
If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
We teach what we need to learn.
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It’s women’s version of the Golden Rule.
Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.
Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.
Too much of our lives corresponds to the ‘lost-wallet’ theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.
The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.
To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.
One act of violence takes four generations to heal.