Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.
We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
We’re communal animals. If we’re by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said ‘maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.’ It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.
More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don’t want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.
One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
It turns out that we literally don’t empathize unless we’re physically present – that the oxytocin, the famous “tend and befriend” hormone is not produced unless we’re present with all five senses.
There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.
When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.
I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.
Each individual woman’s body demands to be accepted on its own terms.