In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
It would be a disaster to have Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina in the White House, so it’s not just a woman, but a woman who stands for the majority needs of women. It’s not just getting a job for one woman, it’s making life better for all women.
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment.
Women have two choices: Either they’re feminists or masochists.
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
I do not like to write – I like to have written.
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child – a true self who is waiting.
No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
If you say, I’m for equal pay, that’s a reform. But if you say. I’m a feminist, that’s a transformation of society.
I would say don’t worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
Inner space is the real frontier.
I never quite trust futurists because I think they’re kind of telling us what they think our future should be.
It’s endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.
In the late ’60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.
It’s obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of the women’s movement in one person. Only a diverse group can symbolize a movement.
The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.