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 jok… - Gloria Steinem

After all, hope is a form of planning. If our hopes weren’t already real within us, we couldn’t even hope them.

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.

In later years, if I'm remembered at all it will be for inventing a phrase like 'reproductive freedom' ... as a phrase it includes the freedom to have children or not to. So it makes it possible for us to make a coalition.