A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.

You can travel without traveling, and you can not travel -- yet travel. Being on the road is a state of mind.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

The dogma is that, that dogma is a mistake.

Men are victims of their own impulses.

We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It's worth taking time to demistify it. ... All the things an adolescent can be ... are reduced to a three digit number. ... We too can decide how to value our education instead of letting them value us.

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage -- often on religious grounds.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.

People now ask me if I'm passing the torch. I always explain that no, I'm keeping my torch, thank you very much. And I'm using it to light the torches of others.
Because the truth is that the old image of one person with a torch is part of the problem, not the solution. We each need a torch if we are to see where we're going.
And together, we create so much more light.

Patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all -- even as we forge different individual choices within them -- just as do the megapatterns of nationalism or racism.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

We move away from only the binary boxes of masculine or feminine and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.

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.

Or perhaps it's activist, but on environmental and economic problems, without understanding that pressuring women to have too many children is the biggest cause of environmental distress, and economic courses should start with reproduction, not just production.

One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?

It's easier to blame the person with less power.