“Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." ” 

“Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. ” 

“I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize.” 

“We might have known sooner that the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.” 

“A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.”

“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.” 

“If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.” 

“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us” 

“Each others' lives are our best textbooks.” 

“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.” 

“Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.” 

“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.” 

“Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.” 

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.” 

“If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.” 

“We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. ” 

“This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.” 

“Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.” 

“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.” 

“When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.” 

“I do not like to write - I like to have written.” 

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.”

“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.” 

“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”