"Democracy begins with owning our bodies. By that measure, women have rarely lived in a democracy."

"Difference is the source of learning. Maybe we should put it on a t-shirt — 'Difference is a Gift' so that we understand and don’t fear, so we are able to go up to the person most different from us an…"

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

"Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. …"

"I assumed that I would have to marry the man I wanted to become."