The dogma is that, that dogma is a mistake.

The moment we find the true reason for some feeling that has an irrationally powerful hold over us, whether it has to do with body image or anything else, the spell is broken.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon.

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

Whenever one person stands up and says, ‘Wait a minute, this is wrong,’ it helps other people do the same.

Perhaps we share stories in much the same spirit that explorers share maps, hoping to speed each other's journey, but knowing that the journey we make will be our own.

I'm not sure feminism should require an adjective. Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what the dictionary says “feminism” means, is enough to make a revolution in itself.

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

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.'